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Cello / Violoncello / Cello da Spalla

  • [Video] Introducing the Baroque Cello - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  • [Video] Meet the Orchestra: Cello - Irish Baroque Orchestra

  • [Video] Introducing the Violoncello da Spalla - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

  • [Video] Interview with Arthur Cambreling: Baroque Cello - Maisie Productions

  • [Podcast] Violoncello da Spalla Podcast - Daniela Gaidano & A. Visintini

  • Anatomy of the Cello - The Instrument Place

  • Essay on Fingering the Violoncello and on the Conduct of the Bow: Dedicated to Professors of the Instrument - J.L. Duport (translated by John Bishop). Robert Cocks & Co./London, 1852

  • Viola Pomposa and Violoncello Piccolo - F. W. Galpin. Music & Letters, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 354-364, 1931

  • [Italian] A Proposito del Violoncello Piccolo di Bach, (About Bach’s Piccolo Cello) - Gustavo Boringhieri. Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 113-131, 1973

  • A Cellist’s Guide to the New Approach - Claude Kenneson. Exposition Press/New York, 1974

  • [PDF] From Violone to Violoncello: A Question of Strings? - Stephen Bonta. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. III, 1977

  • [PDF] Terminology for the Bass Violin in Seventeenth-Century Italy - Stephen Bonta. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. IV, 1978

  • [PDF] The Baroque Cello and Its Performance - Marc Vanscheeuwijck. Performance Practice Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, Article 7, 1996

  • Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites - Tim Janof. CelloBello, November 2002

  • The Violoncello, Viola da Spalla and Viola Pomposa in Theory and Practice - Dmitry Badiarov. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 60, pp. 121-145, April 2007

  • Recent Re-Evaluations of the Baroque Cello and What They Might Mean for Performing the Music of J. S. Bach - Marc Vanscheeuwijck. Early Music, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 181-192, 2010

  • Violoncello da Spalla – Story of a Rediscovery - Dmitry Badiarov. The Strad Magazine, December 18, 2013

  • Da Spalla or da Gamba? Early Cello in Northern Italian Repertoire, 1650-95 - Alessandro Sanguineti. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 69, pp. 99-108, 158, April 2016

  • Schools of Cello Playing: Germany - Janet Horvath. Interlude, August 2018

  • Schools of Cello Playing: France - Janet Horvath. Interlude, August 2018

  • Schools of Cello Playing: Russia and Armenia - Janet Horvath. Interlude, August 2018

  • The Violoncello Piccolo is the Violoncello da Spalla is the Viola Pomposa? - Bernard Labadie. Orchestra of St. Luke’s, 2020

  • An Approach to Romantic Cello Playing in Brahms’ Time - Maria Cadenas Rodriguez. Royal Conservatory, The Hague, 2020

  • Cello Strings: Gut vs. Steel - Grimmusik.com

  • The Violoncello da Spalla, a 21st-Century Aberration? - Daniela Gaidano & A. Visintini. February 26, 2021

  • The Early History of the Cello in Naples: Giovanni Bononcini, Rocco Greco, and Gaetano Francone in a Forgotten Manuscript Collection - Guido Olivieri. Cambridge University Press, 2021

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