Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Ziani, Marc’Antonio
1653 ca.-1715
work information
Laudate Pueri (I)
Items with viola da gamba:
“Suscitans a terra” for alto, tenor, 2 solo violins, viola da gamba, strings and basso continuo
“Gloria” for alto, viola da gamba and basso continuo
manuscript
place (and editor)
Wien
date
1714
scoring
voxA + voxT + 2 vl + vb or vt + str + bc, voxA + vb or vt + bc
where
further information
notes
The overall range (d-e’’) and some chords of the parts as a whole composed by Marc’Antonio Ziani for viola da gamba suggest that he had an alto-tenor viol in mind, even if their execution is not impossible on a bass viol.
bibliography
Marc Strümper, Die Viola da gamba am Wiener Kaiserhof, Tutzing, Schneider, 2004
, p. 241-242