RARE TENOR VIOLA, Anonymous VENEZIA, XVII century played by Marco Massera
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@nelsongrimaldi33446 жыл бұрын
Best viola sound I ever heard, marvelous, just proving that size does matter in the end
@marcomassera30216 жыл бұрын
nelson grimaldi thanks! And, I m agree totally! It’s hard, but possible :)
@TechnoGlowStick Жыл бұрын
O_O
@soooti6993 Жыл бұрын
As a baroque violinist and viola player I need a tenor viola too… I love that depth of the sound!
@unkobold3 ай бұрын
Amazing sound ! I hate people who despise the alto - as an instrument for bad violon players. And here is the proof that in good hands, « low violins » can be very expressive and colourful in an astonishing manner ! We need more instruments of this type, and more dedicated students who will strive to lmmake them sing with their full voice !
@DrTheRich3 жыл бұрын
Ii wish there was so much more music of this instrument :( Yours is one of the few I can find online.
@craigcowing11074 жыл бұрын
What a rich and wonderful sound!
@marcomassera69224 жыл бұрын
Craig Cowing Many thanks :)
@KokoMcMonkey9 ай бұрын
What a beautiful tone. Violas can be stuffy in the lower register or screechy in the upper, but this one has a remarkably even tone throughout.
@cymbae836 жыл бұрын
Beautiful sound!
@SamLamingMusic4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love the tone you are getting from this Instrumet + Your skill. Wonderful video on the ever rare Tenor Viola - Something I'm absolutely interested in so thank you!
@marcomassera69224 жыл бұрын
SamLamingMusic thanks a lot! And good luck for your interesting videos :)
@TheAnonyy6 жыл бұрын
Beautiful instrument,not keen on the dark colouring but the sound more than makes up for it.
@ViolaaltaGraz6 жыл бұрын
Nice instrument - and well played! Greetings from a tenor violist,
@bystroffc6 жыл бұрын
Hello Carl Smith -- I am another tenor violist. Hi!
@travis51254 жыл бұрын
Nice! I was looking for 51 centimeter viola and found this.
@ljonathan96615 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting. gorgeous sound.
@marcomassera30215 жыл бұрын
L RosaLeBron grazie mille :)
@SarumChoirmaster3 жыл бұрын
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have this viola scanned via electronic means such as MRI so that Luthiers the world over can obtain the exact measurements. I would pay a lot of money to have a copy of this instrument made.
@SamLamingWingsuit3 жыл бұрын
MRI scans aren't needed for Luthiers to take Measurements - I have a device which uses 2 magnets to measure top, back and rib thicknesses, and taking an outline of an Instrument is simple enough. There are Stradivari and Amati Tenor Violas in Museums as well, both look absolutely wonderful. I'm half way through a copy of the Amati. The A at 415 is a historic point - Viol players do the same for example.
@miguelmarquez41923 ай бұрын
When its tuned to 415, are all strings down a half step? It sounds like a b natural on the lowest string.
@AndytheChav Жыл бұрын
Amazing! 🥰
@serenaluce3 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful! Love it!
@bystroffc6 жыл бұрын
Nice sound! I believe the tenor viola was tuned FCGd or GDae.
@marcomassera30215 жыл бұрын
Chris Bystroff hi! Thanks ! I explain that in my last commentary :)
@doggoofthebath5593 Жыл бұрын
what is the piece at 5:29? I want to try it
@rocconapolitano67773 жыл бұрын
Ciao Marco, complimenti.
@mollyleary96113 жыл бұрын
Hello! I was wondering what piece you're playing after the Biber's Passacaglia? Thanks!
@marcomassera69223 жыл бұрын
Hello It’s a theme from a Napolitain villanella, XVI c.a.
@SamLamingWingsuit4 жыл бұрын
Listening to this again and again. Such a good sound! Could you tell me the name of the piece you start playing at 2:43? I want to try to learn! Thanks
@marcomassera69224 жыл бұрын
Sam Laming many thanks! At 2:43 I started to play the Biber’s Passacaglia. Greetings :)
@SarumChoirmaster6 жыл бұрын
This tenor viola is just tuned down a half-step (A=415). I would love to know a lot more about this instrument and would like to see it measured in great detail via MRI scanning and other high tech scans. It would be great if more vids would be made with this instrument and placed here on youtube. Who owns this instrument? Is it for sale?
@marcomassera30216 жыл бұрын
Viola Bear hello! I am the owner of this viola, and I don’t sale it. The pitch is 415 and in a sort of vallotti temperament that I did it for this video. I will post more vids, sure.
@marcomassera30216 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/jni7l3d_fZ6cfZY
@dsokind5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic instrument and playing! How long is the body (corpus) and the stringth length of this viola?
@marcomassera30215 жыл бұрын
dsokind thanks ! It’s 46 cm
@dsokind5 жыл бұрын
@@marcomassera3021 Thank you Marco. I still wonder about the stringth length of this wonderfull viola. The reason? I do play on a later (end of 19th century) German (Dresden) viola with a body length of 45.40 and would like to compare the vibrating stringth length of mine with this much older and rarer Italian one.
@marcomassera69224 жыл бұрын
dsokind hi sorry for the late answer. You can add me on fb?
@elsipario3 жыл бұрын
Prezioso! di quanti cm di lunghezza è questa viola?
@marcomassera69223 жыл бұрын
46 ☺️
@OurMagicalNature6 жыл бұрын
That's a nice sounding viola! Am I correct that a tenor viola is viola sounding a few notes lower than a regular viola?
@jonathanvalk7266 жыл бұрын
no, it's only a half step lower (baroque tuning), but the sound is different because the largeness of the viola
@OurMagicalNature6 жыл бұрын
Ah, thanks. The sound is indeed something special!
@jonathanvalk7266 жыл бұрын
I was speaking about the instrument presented here, but after reading your question, I realised that you asked about the term tenor viola. A tenor viola can have two meanings. Or it's a big viola that is tuned lower then a normal viola: G-D-A-e (octaaf lower then violin, so you're right about that) or it's just a normal tuned, but larger viola (C-G-d-a). In this case it's the last option. You could probably try lower strings on this instrument, but since nearly all baroque viola parts are written for C-G-d-a, it would't be very practical. Also, the string lenght from a normal viola is relatively short, so it's an big improvement for the color of the sound when an instrument tuned like C-G-d-a has a larger body. When you start to tune it lower, you will end up having the same problem with a normal viola: the string length is a too short to produce a great sound. And if you want to have an instrument thats tuned like G-D-A-e, you might like the 5-string violoncello da spalla, an shouldercello, that is tuned like: C"-G-D-A-e!
@OurMagicalNature6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your elaborate reply! I experimented with lowering my violin and viola strings in the past but as you say, that doesn't produce a very good sound. However, I have put on a cello string on my violin at one time and that gave a surprising nice sound if you played it together with another string. I kinda forgot about the violoncello da spalla so thanks for the tip! I might buy a 1/16 cello on day and start playing it like a violoncello da spalla. I really like the sound and play style of that.
@marcomassera30216 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Valk thanks for the rich and interesting explanation. I add something more: i use for this video not just a 415 A diapason, but also two different kinds of tunings: Viotti/Yung for Bach and Telemann and the Mesothonic for the last old popular Italian song.
@szeal2 жыл бұрын
What type of strings are used for this?
@alandana2 жыл бұрын
What are its measures? Alan
@the0n3buc5uc6 жыл бұрын
may i have a list of the songs you played?
@marcomassera30215 жыл бұрын
Cedrik Beiwel excepts from Sonata et Partitas, J S Bach, Fantasie from Telemann and some Napolitaine popular Ciacconas of XVII cen
@davidcabral6574 жыл бұрын
How many inches or centimeters is the body length?
@marcomassera69224 жыл бұрын
David Cabral 45,8 cm
@douglaslanzillo39965 жыл бұрын
Who is the difference for the Classic Viola?
@Cellosong20078 ай бұрын
Some early baroque Violas have shorter fingerboard, Classical ones (1750-1820) began having longer fingerboards until the length of the modern day violas
@gensoustudio62703 жыл бұрын
shoulder rest on a baroque viola? no thank you. also bad for the neck
@marcomassera69223 жыл бұрын
A philological approach is not about to use or not an accessory, chin off or on and so on, but searching the beauty of the prosody of the baroque language! I prefer emotions than conventions...And I Never had problem with my neck 😉anyway many thanks for your nice tip 😋
@gensoustudio62703 жыл бұрын
@@marcomassera6922 well yes the music is always beautiful and it's your taste and ability to use it comfortably of course. Not a criticism against you at all! Just saying that for myself, the clamp is something I can both feel and hear the difference of when playing. I would struggle! Thanks for your reply :)
@marcomassera30215 жыл бұрын
Hi guys. The tenor viola in XVII century in Italy, could be tuned in different ways, as you can see reading and studying tonnes of manuscript edition of music in that century. In France was called “taille” and it was tuned as a modern viola. It depended about roles and necessities, so nothing was so fixed as we can think today. Many thanks to everyone who appreciated this video! I have a KZbin channel where I play the Nino Rota “Intermezzo”, if you like to listen it. Marco Massera
@Fradamore2 жыл бұрын
Ciao Marco, eri in classe con me alle magistrali all'istituti agnesii. Io ti rocordo per le bellissime a creativissime scuse quando arrivavi in ritardo per la lezione di chimica. Bello vedere che fai un lavoro che ami. Complimenti