Christopher Simpson's 1659 publication The Division Violist was a compendium of technique relating to the viola da gamba, both technical and compositional. Like that of other compilers of instruction books, Simpson as a composer has remained in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. Gambist John Mark Rozendaal here attempts to elevate Simpson's output, even comparing The Division Violist to "the late works of J.S. Bach among those rare monuments of musical Art in which the conventional dichotomies of theory and practice ...
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Christopher Simpson's 1659 publication The Division Violist was a compendium of technique relating to the viola da gamba, both technical and compositional. Like that of other compilers of instruction books, Simpson as a composer has remained in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. Gambist John Mark Rozendaal here attempts to elevate Simpson's output, even comparing The Division Violist to "the late works of J.S. Bach among those rare monuments of musical Art in which the conventional dichotomies of theory and practice, art and science, freedom and discipline, inspiration and perspiration are rendered irrelevant by perfect synthesis." He doesn't quite make his ambitious case, although gambists will welcome the chance to hear this seldom-recorded music. Rozendaal finds a mystical strain, "combining the disciplines of a yogi and a mathematician," in Simpson's theoretical introductions, but readers don't learn enough about Simpson's writings to decide whether they go beyond the usual appeal to Greek...
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