Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Ziani, Marc’Antonio
Andromeda
Items with viola da gamba:
aria «L'usignuol che in lacci» for soprano, 2 oboes, bassoon, viola da gamba, strings and basso continuo
aria «Il tuo nome» for soprano, viola da gamba and basso continuo (harpsichord)
manuscript
Wien
A-Wn Mus. Hs. 17173
Strümper, Viennese music with viols: «L'usignuol che in lacci», aria «Il tuo nome»
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.
Some double stops in the parts of this opera, inexecutable on both a D and a G viol, should be due to distraction.
Marc Strümper, Die Viola da gamba am Wiener Kaiserhof, Tutzing, Schneider, 2004
, pp. 151-152