The Double Bass and Violone Internet Archive by Jerry Fuller. Information about the history of the double bass and violone as well as information about historically-informed performance practice.

The Double Bass and Violone Internet Archive
by
Jerry Fuller

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Initiated February 18, 1996

Last updated May 7, 2008

Articles and 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 Questions 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 Joelle 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? 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
An Introduction to Violone Playing by A.D. Ackerman
On Playing Continuo by Martha Bishop
Renaissance Woman British baroque basssit Chi-chi Nwanoku explains why working with period insturments 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

Internet Resources

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JERRY FULLER
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Biography - Jerry Fuller

JERRY FULLER & BASS Jerry Fuller began studying the double bass at age 16 and was invited to join the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra three years later. Within two years he was promoted to first desk of the double bass section in addition to performing with the Santa Fe Opera. Mr Fuller has also served as solo double bass of The Musikkollegium Winterthur Switzerland. While in Europe, Mr. Fuller became interested in historically-informed performance practice and has achieved international recognition for his work with period instruments. A Chicago Artists Abroad grant recipient, Mr. Fuller’s performances in London, Rome, Geneva and Edinburgh have been broadcast worldwide. In addition, Mr. Fuller has performed at the Ravinia and the Aspen Music Festivals and both the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals.

His recordings on the Musical Arts Society, Cedille and Centaur labels have been hailed by both critics and colleagues. Mr. Fuller also writes on period instruments and performance practice for The Strad, Double Bassist, and Bass World magazines, serves on the editorial board of the Online Journal of Bass Research and is webmaster for the Double Bass and Violone Internet Archive.

Mr. Fuller served as an officer of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bassists 1990-1996 and has appeared as a guest artist with the American Bach Soloists of San Francisco, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston and the Newberry Consort of Chicago.

He is principal double bassist of The Baroque Band, as well as the period instrument forces for Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and Chicago Opera Theater. He is director of both ArsAntiguaPresents.com and the Midwest Young Artists Early Music program.

For more information, call 312.415.2391
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