On 20 Dec 2008 at 20:50, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:

> I was working on a Telemann cantata sinfonia, and essentially it's in two
> voices for strings: violin 1/2 and viola/basso continuo. The viola part
> was throwing me, because Telemann has it in the bass clef, and most of the
> lower notes are unplayable on the modern viola. My editor suggested that
> in fact Telemann meant the viola da gamba.

Telemann wrote a lot of music that uses viols, some of it quite 
spectacular. What are you working on? 

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