Hearing Double: how to use the double bass in the VI Concerti Armonici by Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer.

Eva Euwe

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Hearing Double: how to use the double bass in the VI Concerti Armonici by Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. (2018)

Eva Euwe

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Name: Eva Euwe Main Subject: Violone Research Supervisor: Johannes Boer Title of Research: Hearing Double Research Question: Was the double bass used in the VI Concerti Armonici by Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer, and if so, how was it used? Summary of Results: As far as we know, the VI Concerti Armonici by Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer were written for a chamber music setting with one instrument per part. We do not know which basso continuo instrumentation was intended or preferred by the composer, but it could have been possible that a double bass was to be used. At that time in the Netherlands, double basses and bassists were around and it is not unlikely that they also played in relatively small settings such as chamber music. If the double bass played the basso continuo line in this piece, there are many reasons that it was used in a different way than the more usual 'concerto grosso' style of playing the continuo line. It is also likely that instead of a double bass, a smaller bass instrument in the 8 foot register was used to double the continuo line with. This would be an instrument that is perhaps bigger than most baroque cellos and close to a basse de violon or a G-violone. To illustrate these possibilities, I have recorded several versions of the same Concerto with different basso continuo instrumentations. Biography: Eva Euwe (Amsterdam, 1988) studies historical double bass and violone with Margaret Urquhart at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. She received her Bachelor’s diploma from the Utrecht Conservatory where she studied modern double bass with Quirijn van Regteren Altena. She received masterclasses from world-class bassists such as Joel Quarrington and Edicson Ruiz.  Alongside her studies, Eva works as a freelance bassist with several ensembles such as De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, BarokOpera Amsterdam and Música Temprana. She also performs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as a participant of the OAE Experience 2018.

type	research exposition
keywords	Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, basso continuo, double bass, chamber music
date	20/09/2016
published	24/09/2018
last modified	24/09/2018
status	published
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/308467/404690
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.308467
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	1. Master Research Projects

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name	Bass instrument, 1585, Padua
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name	Violone 2. Ernst Buch, Nuremberg 1641. String length ca. 87 cm
copyright	Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. photo: Eva Euwe
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name	Violone 3. F. F. Straub
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name	Violone 5 anonymous
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name	Violone 1. Hanns Vogel
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name	Albert Dunning - A Master Unmasked pagina 31
copyright	Monumenta Musica Europea,Turnhout, 2003.
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name	Jan Josef Horemans, Musicerend gezelschap in een interieur, 1736
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name	Jan Josef Horemans, Parklandschap met muziekgezelschap, 1718
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name	Ce morceau est un peu trop long
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name	Fugue note concerto III page 1
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name	Horemans, Jan Josef zoon, Elegant musicerend gezelschap in een interieur, 1729-1792
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name	kneuterdijk-web
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name	Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag. Bartholomeus van Bassen, 1650. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
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name	Concerto I MS first system
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name	UnicoWilhelmvanWassenaer by J.F.vanDouven
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name	Peter Horemans, Contrabas-speler 1715-1776
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name	Maximiliaan Blommaert, Herberginterieur met strijkers en dansende man, ca 1695
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name	deFesch 12 Sonatas op4 p1-001
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name	Blankenburg theorbo quote with translation
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name	Excerpt 1. vc and bc lines
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name	Excerpt 1 score
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name	mov IV
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name	Mov IV hps db
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name	Mov IV hrps + vn + th
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name	mov III hrps + db + th
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name	vb 1 cello jumps in octaves
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name	Concerto I MS first system
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