Le Sieur Danoville (fl. late 17th century) was a French gambist and instrumental teacher. He described himself as a disciple of

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe Jean (?) de Sainte-Colombe () was a French composer and violist. Sainte-Colombe was a celebrated master of the viola da gamba. He is credited (by Jean Rousseau in his ''Traité de la viole'' (1687)) with adding the seventh string, tuned to the no ...

. In Paris in 1687, he published the book ''L'Art de toucher le dessus et le basse de violle'' about playing on

viola da gamba The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...

. This concise work of 47 pages was written only for self-study. It comprises four parts, in which the attitude of the viol, the notation and the fingerboard in notation and tablature, the decorations and finally bowing are explained. Unlike Jean Rousseau's '' Traité de la Viole'', which appeared in the same year and won extraordinary popularity, Danoville's textbook did not include an historical and aesthetic chapter, but was limited only to the technical instructions.

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French male classical composers French Baroque composers French Baroque viol players Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 17th-century male musicians {{France-composer-stub