Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music (Music and Material Culture)

By: Michael Fleming and John Bryan

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Synopsis: Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 400 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317147169
Related ISBNs:: 9781472468567, 9781472468550, 9781315578392, 9780367229689, 9780367229689, 9781472468543, 9781472468543
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/27/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.