Articles & Bibliographies

Alfred Planyavsky and the Vienna Double Bass Archive by James Barket and Jerry Fuller
Awakening the Past by Deborah Dunham
Back to Basics – An Approach to Early Music by Jerry Fuller
Back to the Future by Joëlle Fancher Morton
Baroque Bowed-Bass Instruments by Joëlle Fancher Morton
Bass Matters: So Really, What is a Violone? Some Answers, and More Questons by Joëlle Fancher Morton
“Bass World” articles on early music
Basso Continuo and Sustained Bass Instrument Doubling (at pitch) by Joëlle Fancher Morton
Bibliography by Alfred Planyavsky and James Barket
Bibliography by Jim Lambert
The Brandenburg Bassist – Peter McCarthy explains how he approached recording the Brandenburg Concertos with a new period instrument chamber ensemble, the European Brandenburg Ensemble led by Trevor Pinnock
Chamber Music in the Vienna Double Bass Archive by Alfred Planyavsky, translated by James Barket
Don’t Repeat It – Ornament It! by Todd Markey
Double Bass Session at the International Musicological Society Conference in Leuven, Belgium by Marc Vanscheeuwijck
“Double Bassist” articles on early music
The Early History and Use of the G Violone by Joëlle Fancher Morton
Eighteenth-Century Method for Double Bass found in Italy in 2005 by Luca Marzetti
Evolution of String Instruments by Joëlle Fancher Morton
Experiencing Early Music by Casey Middaugh
From Violone to Violoncello: A Question of Strings? by Stephen Bonta
Galpin Society Journal Index of Articles on the Double Bass and Violone
Dissertation Summary: “A History of Double Bass Performance Practice: 1500-1900? by Stephen Sas
History of the Double Bass by Rodney Slatford
An Introduction to Gut Strings by Jerry Fuller
On Playing Continuo by Martha Bishop
Renaissance Woman British baroque bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku explains why working with period instruments is so rewarding. Spring 2006
Terminology for the Bass Violin in Seventeenth-Century Italy by Stephen Bonta
What is a Violone? by Tharald Borgir & Alfred Planyavsky