Summary
The viola d'amore has no fixed tuning like the violin, and the tuning chord was based on the key of the piece in the 17th-18th centuries.
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Contemporary composer and player Rachel Stott has written scores featuring multiple viola d'amore musicians.
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Scordatura is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning, and is used to allow special effects or unusual chords or timbre, or to make certain passages easier to play.
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The viola d'amore is an early music instrument that has a special resonance due to its sympathetic strings, which provide a distinct undertone. It was popular in the 17th century and has been featured in works by composers such as Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Graupner, Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Stamitz, and Joseph Leopold Eybler. Rachel Stott, a contemporary composer and player, has written scores that feature multiple viola d'amore musicians, including Odysseus in Ogygia.
Demystifying the Viola d’amore - Benning Violins
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Known for its warm and reverberant timbre, the viola d'amore ("viol of love") occupies the tenor tessitura of the viol family. Ordinarily, the instrument's bowed strings number seven, although this…
An Introduction to the Viola d'Amore - Publish0x
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Scordatura ( [skordaˈtuːra] ; literally, Italian for "discord", or "mistuning") is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning. It typically attempts to allow special effects or unusual chords or timbre, or to make certain passages easier to play
Scordatura - Wikipedia
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VDA. The Viola d'amore is a bowed, stringed instrument that started appearing with frequency on the European continent at the end of the 17th century, initially in the Salzburg, Munich,…
About the instrument: Viola d'amore Society of America
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