Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Musitians on the viol de gamba' : professional players in Restoration England
  • 'The noble bass viol' : amateur players around 1700
  • 'Per la viola da gamba' : immigrants in early eighteenth-century London
  • 'Awake my cetra, harp, and lute' : John Frederick Hintz and the cult of exotic instruments
  • 'A solo on the viola da gamba' : Charles Frederick Abel as a performer
  • 'Composed to the soul' : Abel's viola da gamba music
  • 'The heart of sensibility' : writers, artists, and aristocrats
  • 'The art of playing it has never died out in this country' : Abel's competitors, followers, and successors
  • 'Performed upon the original instruments for which it was written' : the viola da gamba and the early music revival.