Pomposa violated

See also: Violated (homonymy)

The violated pomposa was a String instrument rubbed of the family of the tenors, a length of approximately 60 centimetres and being held on the shoulder like the viola and the Violon. The musicians give in manuscripts and in the old literature with this instrument various names, such as for example violoncello piccolo , violated or violoncello da spalla , violated di collo , bassetto , in German Fagottgeige (violin-bassoon).

The instrument had five cords, one moreover than the viola or the Violoncelle. The basic agreement is: C , ground , D , the and semi .

According to contemporary writings, Johann Sebastian Bach would have ordered this instrument which was to have the same sound characteristics as a violoncello (thanks to its thick and spun cords) near the Luthier Johann Christian Hoffmann of Leipzig. The goal was to let play of the difficult parts by Violoniste S or Altiste S, for lack of Violoncelliste S knowing to play them. Moreover, it could be played like basic instrument at the time of processions in the churches.

Since 2003, the Belgian violonist Sigiswald Kuijken and other soloists of sound together the Small Band play of the counterparts of this instrument in various works of Bach.

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The violin makers always tried to fulfill the requirements of the musicians and of the type-setters, thus, we can see various instruments which appear strange to us as pomposa violated it which appeared at the 18th century.

Its manufacture is particular: the trunk is assembled in the air, i.e. without mould, the fish-plates are encrusted in the content. Description of violated pomposa

A text of Sigiswald Kuijken on violated da spalla

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