Demachy | Pièces de violle en musique et en tablature (1685)

  • Description

Original edition restored by Atelier Philidor.

  • Full title: "Pièces de violle en musique et en tablature différentes les unes des autres et sur plusieurs tons. Elles contiennent deux livres et sont les premières qui jusques à présent ayent paru au jour.
  • Instrumentation: viola da gamba (bass)
  • Edition | Source: Facsimile (2018, second restoration) | Jérôme Bonneuil, Paris, 1685
  • Notation | Clefs: French tablature & F4, C3
  • 2 books (tablature & staff notation), 108 pages | B&W
  • Weight: 350 g

These pieces are presented by the composer as “the first which have yet been published”. They are preceded by a lengthy introduction on viol playing, legato bowing and ornaments, a table of the latter being provided. The actual pieces consist of preludes, allemandes, courantes, sarabands, jigs, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, occasionally with “doubles”, either in ordinary notation or in tablature.

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