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Viola

Libraries and online resources about viola technique, repertoire, history, and pedagogy

Historical Strings

Historical Strings

Performance Practice (General Subject Search: Performance Practice (Music) )

  • Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music, by Mary Cyr
    ML497.2 .C97 2012
  • The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide, by Robin Stowell
    ML855 .S79 2001

Plucked Instruments

  • The Classic Image: European History and Manufacture of the Lyre
    Guitar, 850-1840, by Stephen Bonner
    ML1015.L9 B65  Archives & Special Collections (2nd Floor)
  • Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece, by Martha Maas
    ML169 .M2 1989
  • Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern Interpretation
    ML1003 .P47 1997
  • Kinyras: The Divine Lyre, by John Franklin
  • ML169 .F73 2015

Bowed Instruments

The Viol / Viola da Gamba

  • The Viol: History of an Instrument, by Annette Otterstedt
    ML927 .V5 O8813 2002
  • Early History of the Viol, by Ian Woodfield
    ML760 .V55 W66 1984
  • Play the Viol, by Alison Crum with Sonia Jackson
    MT338 .C93 1989
  • Performance Practice and Technique in Marin Maris'
    Pièces de viole, by Deborah Teplow
    MT145 .M37 T4 1986
  • A Handbook of French Baroque Viol Technique, by John Hsu
    MT338 .H78
  • Published Music for the Viola da Gamba and Other Viols, by Robin De Smet
    ML128 .S7 D48 (Music Collection Reference)
  • The Viola Da Gamba: Its Origin and History,
    Its Technique and Musical Resources, by Nathalie Dolmetsch
    ML760 .D64 1968

Interlibrary Loan

Users are encouraged to search for items beyond University Libraries' catalog via RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and WorldCat. Materials not available in print or online may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Please allow up to seven days for electronic delivery and up to fourteen days for delivery of physical items.