Arnold Dolmetsch, the Rebab, and the Revival of the Rebec
The early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), his wife Mabel (1874–1963), their children, students and friends played a key role in the revival of the rebec. They also had an interest in the rebab. Arnold and his family might have first encountered the rebab through their friend Marie-Thérès...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/420428 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/420428 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Early music revival, Rebec reconstruction, Rebab performance, Arnold Dolmetsch, Organological history |
| Sumario: | The early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), his wife Mabel (1874–1963), their children, students and friends played a key role in the revival of the rebec. They also had an interest in the rebab. Arnold and his family might have first encountered the rebab through their friend Marie-Thérèse de Lens (1888–1948), who moved to Morocco during World War I. She visited England in 1920 and performed on the rebab at a Dolmetsch family concert. The Dolmetsches visited her in Meknes in 1929. Mabel observed rebab performances there and later wrote about them to Henry George Farmer (1882–1965) and Virginia Randolph Harrison (1901–1991), discussing the rebab’s relationship with the rebec. Arnold began to build rebecs in 1928; an audiovisual recording of him playing one survives from that year. He and his family performed on the instrument in the Haslemere Festival. Arnold searched for repertoire that would suit its historical context and timbre; his decisions were sometimes described as anachronistic. In 1934, Arnold constructed tenor rebecs to play arrangements of music by Pérotin (fl. ca 1200). This chapter examines the Dolmetsches’ engagement with the rebab and their contribution to the revival of the rebec. |
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