Robin Stowell (Editor) - The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge Companions to Music)

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The Cambridge Companion to the

CELLO

EDITED BY

Robin Stowell

Professor of Music, Cardiff University

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Cambridge University Press 1999

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First published 1999

Sixth printing 2006

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ISBN 978-0-521-62101-4 hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-62928-7 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2007

TO THE MEMORY OF

Timothy G. S. Mason

(19481997)

Contents

John Dilworth

John Dilworth

Bernard Richardson

Margaret Campbell

Margaret Campbell

Margaret Campbell

Robin Stowell and David Wyn Jones

Robin Stowell

Robin Stowell

Peter Allsop

Valerie Walden

R. Caroline Bosanquet

Frances-Marie Uitti

Illustrations

The contributors

Peter Allsop is a Lecturer in Music at Exeter University and specialises in Italian seventeenth-century instrumental music. He is the author of The Italian Trio Sonata (Oxford University Press, 1992) and General Editor of New Orpheus Editions (devoted to the publication of the trio sonata repertory), and he contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to the Violin. He is currently completing a life and works study of the Italian violinist-composer Arcangelo Corelli.

R. Caroline Bosanquet studied at the Royal Academy of Music and later continued her cello studies with Christopher Bunting and in the USA. She also gained a B. Mus. degree externally from the University of Durham. A Senior Lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, from 1966, she has taught the cello, musicianship and numerous academic courses to students of all ages from beginners to degree and diploma level, and has given courses for cello teachers with Joan Dickson. Her book devoted to harmonics, The Secret Life of Cello Strings (1996), has received critical acclaim and her Elgie for cello and piano has received many performances world-wide. She has also written many articles on cello-related subjects in The Strad and in the journal of the European String Teachers Association.

Margaret Campbell is the author of The Great Cellists, The Great Violinists, Dolmetsch: the Man and his Work, and has been editor of the British Journal of Music Therapy. She began her career as a Fleet Street journalist and has been a regular contributor to The Strad, Musical Opinion, Music in Education, and other journals.

John Dilworth graduated from the Newark School of Violin Making in 1979. He has since worked for Charles Beare in the London workshops of J. & A. Beare Ltd. as a restorer of violins, violas and cellos, but now runs his own workshop in Twickenham. He has made several instruments, including reproductions of Classical examples. A contributor to The Cambridge Companion to the Violin, he also writes for The Strad and Das Musikinstrument, contributing articles based on practical experience and research into the history of the violin and its makers. He is currently working on a volume on The Masterpieces of Giuseppe Guarneri del Ges.

David Wyn Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, Cardiff University. His publications include Haydn, his Life and Music (co-authored with H. C. Robbins Landon; London, 1988), a study of Beethovens Pastoral Symphony (Cambridge, 1995), an edited volume entitled Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria (Cambridge, 1996) and The Life of Beethoven (Cambridge, 1998). He is currently completing a project on manuscript sources of eighteenth-century Austrian music in the Royal Palace, Madrid, and compiling the Oxford Companion to Haydn.

Bernard Richardson is a Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. His research activities in musical acoustics stem from a long-standing passion for making and playing musical instruments. He has written numerous articles and lectured world-wide on the subject.

Robin Stowell Educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, Robin Stowell is a Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He is a professional violinist and Baroque violinist as well as a music editor and author. He has written extensively about the violin and stringed instruments in general, as well as about the conventions of performing early music. The author of Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1985), he has also written articles for a wide variety of music journals, including Early Music, Music & Letters and The Strad, and contributed chapters to several collaborative volumes. He is editor of and principal contributor to The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge, 1992), editor of Performing Beethoven (Cambridge, 1994) and has recently completed a study of Beethovens Violin Concerto (Cambridge, 1998).

Frances-Marie Uitti, solo cellist and composer, is a concert artist active in performing throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. She is the inventor of the two-bow technique of playing the cello, wherein four- three- or twopart chordal and polyphonic playing is now possible. Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Gyrgy Kurtg, Jonathan Harvey and many others have written for her using this innovation.

Ms Uitti has worked with a vast array of composers and has premired concertos, solo pieces, theatrical works, and other music dedicated to her by such composers as Louis Andriessen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, James Tenney, Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough, Richard Barrett and Per Nrgrd.