The Sound of Tartini: Instruments and Performing Practices in His Time

Contents

• List of Contributors 7
• Preface 9
• Introduction: The Tartini Moment 13
• The Production of Sound: Instruments and Bows in Tartini’s Time
• Donatella Melini
• String Instrument Bows in the Arts at the Time of Tartini 27
• Johannes Loescher
• Violin Making during Tartini’s Working Life 43
• Antonino Airenti
• The Tartini "Sound" through the Relics 53
• The Sound Environment at the Basilica del Santo di Padova: Colleagues and Orchestra
• Marc Vanscheeuwijck
• Antonio Vandini: Tartini’s Cellist, Colleague and Friend 65
• Alfredo Bernardini
• Matteo Bissoli, Tartini’s Oboist Colleague 79
• Domen Marinčič
• Tartini’s Music Performed without Chordal Continuo 91
• Tartini’s Sound Legacy: Stylistic Influences, Interpretation and Performing Practice
• Federica Nuvoli
• Giuseppe Tartini and Domenico Dall’Oglio: Their Violin Practice Compared 115
• Federico Gon
• Haydn and bariolage: An Italian Affair? 127
• Dario Marušić
• Folk Fiddling in Istria 143
• Index of Names 149