Historically Informed Performance PracticeEnglish • 1 year ago

Introducing the Violoncello da Spalla

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Introducing the Violoncello da Spalla

Historically Informed Performance PracticeEnglish • 1 year ago

Sigiswald Kuijken talks about and demonstrates the now 'extinct' violoncello da spalla (essentially a cello played under one's chin) in advance of a performa...

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2•1 year ago
That was the best take they could get of the Bach prelude?

I agree about the bassoon-like tone. Pretty cool stuff.

There is a discussion of the historical debates of this and similar instruments in “The Violoncello, Viola da Spalla and Viola Pomposa in Theory and Practice” by Dmitry Badiarov.