CHELYS vol. 32 (2004) is the final issue in its current form. Journals after volume 32 are now produced in eletronic form only and called The Viola da Gamba Society Journal (the name Chelys will refer just to the 32 journals issued 1969-2004).

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	Volume 1 (1969) - (download.pdf - 1.6Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Andrew Ashbee Article 1: John Jenkins's Fantasia-Suites for Treble, two Basses and Organ Arthur W. Marshall Article 2: The Viola da Gamba Music of Godfrey Finger Marco Pallis Article 3: The Instrumentation of English Viol Consort Music Gordon Dodd Article 4: The Coperario-Lupo Five-part Books at Washington Gordon Dodd Note 1: Coperario or Bull? Marco Pallis Note 2: Jean Rousseau and the Privilege du Roi Gordon Dodd Note 3: Bells Richard Andrewes Book Review: Peter Le Huray, Music and the Reformation in England 1549-   1660

	Volume 2 (1970) - (download.pdf - 1.8Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Andrew Ashbee Article 1: John Jenkins's Fantasia-Suites for Treble, two Basses and Organ Carolyn Coxon Article 2: Some Notes on English Graces for the Viol Anthony Woodford Article 3: Music for Viols in Tablature: manuscript sources in the British   Museum Richard Nicholson Music review 1: Jenkins and Musica Britannica XXVI Francis Baines Article 4: Fantasias for the Great Double Base Carolyn Coxon Book review 1: Christopher Simpson: A Compendium of Practical Music in   Five Gordon Dodd Parts. Ed. Phillip Lord, Oxford, 1970   Book review 2: Pamela J. Willetts. A Handlist of Music Manuscripts acquired   1908-1967. London, 1970 Andrew Ashbee Book review 3: R. W. Ketton-Cremer. Norfolk in the Civil War. A Portrait of a   Society in Conflict. London, 1969 Anthony Woodford Music review 3: David Greer. Twenty Songs from Printed Sources-The English   Lute-Songs, 2nd series, vol. 21. London, 1969

	Volume 3 (1971) - (download.pdf - 750Kb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Content John M. Jennings Article 1: The Fantasies of Thomas Lupo Collette Harris Article 2: Tobias Hume-a short biography James Whittaker Article 3: As Others Saw Us Gordon Dodd Article 4: The Chest of Viols reconsidered Christopher D. S. Book review: Rosamond E. M. Harding, A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Field Matthew Locke Michael Hobbs Music review 1: William Byrd. Collected Works. Vol. 15. Consort Songs for   voice and viols. Edited by Philip Brett. £4.75. London, Stainer & Bell, 1970 Joan Wess Music review 2: Michael East. Eight Fantasies of Five Parts (1610) £1.50.   London, Stainer & Bell

	Volume 4 (1972) - (download.pdf - 1.4Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Margaret Crum Article 1: The Consort Music from Kirtling, bought for the Oxford Music School   from Anthony Wood, 1667 David Pinto Article 2: William Lawes' Consort Suites for the Viols, and the autograph   Sources Collette Harris Article 3: The Viol Lyra-Way Carl Hugo Ågren Article 4: The Sound of Viols Desmond Dupré Book review: Diana Poulton, John Dowland Anthony Woodford Music review 1: William Byrd. Collected works. Vol. 17. Consort Music, ed.   Kenneth Elliott Rosamond E.M. Music review 2: Matthew Locke: Chamber Music: I, II, Musica Britannica XXXI, Harding XXXII, ed. Michael Tilmouth Michael Hobbs Music review 3: Jacobean Consort Music for recorders or viols, selected from   Musica Britannica IX: Books 3 and 4; Invitation to Madrigals 5, ed. Thurston   Dart

	Volume 5 (1973-4)  - (download.pdf - 3.1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Richard Charteris Article 1: A Rediscovered Source of English Consort Music Margaret Urquhart Article 2: Prebendary Philip Falle (1656-1742) and the Durham Bass Viol   Manuscript A. 27 Nathalie Dolmetsch Article 3: Of Bridges and Fingerboards Andrew Ashbee Article 4: A Further Look at Some of the Le Strange Manuscripts Gordon Dodd Article 5: A Study in Consort Interpretation: William Lawes: Six-part Consort   Suite No. 2 in C Marco Pallis Article 6: Mabel Dolmetsch. Born 6 August 1874 Peter Holman Article 7: Preliminary Checklist of Music for One or More Bass Viols with or   without continuo Printed before 1800 Peter Walls Article 8: Lyra Viol Song Kenneth M. Skeaping Book review 1: Francis Baines: Tutors for the Treble, Tenor and Bass Viol   (Consort) Rosemary Weigand Book review 2: Carl Parrish and John F. Ohl: Masterpieces of Music before   1750 Anthony Woodford Book review 3: Early Music: Volume 1 (nos. 1-4), 1973 Anthony Woodford Book review 4: RILM Abstracts, Cumulative Index 1-4, 1967-1971 Michael Hobbs Music review: William White. Diapente: Two Fantasies à 5

	Volume 6 (1975/76) - (download.pdf - 6.7Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Gordon Dodd William Lawes: Royall Consort Suite No. 9 in F Peter Holman The 'Symphony' Andrew Ashbee Music for Treble, Bass & Organ by John Jenkins Robert Donington James Talbot's Manuscript: Bowed Strings Tim Crawford An Unusual Consort Revealed in an Oxford Manuscript Mark Caudle The English Repertory for Violin, Bass Viol & Continuo

	Volume 7 (1977) - (download.pdf - 6.3Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) David Baker The Instrumental Consort Music of Robert Parsons John Bennett & Richard Mico Pamela Willetts   Gordon Dodd Alfonso Ferrabosco II: The Art of the Fantasy Andrew Ashbee The Six-Part Consort Music of John Jenkins: An Editor's View Wendy Hancock General Rules for Realising an Unfigured Bass in 17th Century England

	Volume 8 (1978/79) - (download.pdf - 1.4Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Frank Traficante Music for Lyra Viol: Manuscript Sources Ian Gammie Sylvestro Ganassi: Regola Rubertina (1542), Lettione Seconda (1543).   A Synopsis of the Text relating to the Viol Peter Allsop the Role of the Stringed Bass as a Continuo Instrument in Italian   Seventeenth Century Instrumental Music Wendy Hancock The Frequency and Positioning of Ornaments in French Viol Music (1685-9) Adrian Rose The Playing Technique of the Dessus and Pardessus de Violes Gordon Dodd Matters Arising from Examination of Lyra-Viol Manuscripts

	Volume 9 (1980) - (download.pdf - 5.9Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Richard Charteris Another Six-Part Fantasia by Martin Peerson? Sheila Marshall Viols in School Adrian Rose The Solo Repertoire for Dessus and Pardessus de Violes Gordon Dodd Matters Arising from Examination of Lyra-Viol Manuscripts

	Volume 10 (1981) - (download.pdf - 1.5Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) D. & J. Baker The Browning [I] Michael Goater The Maker's Viol David Pinto The Fantasy Manner: the seventeenth-century context

	Volume 11 (1982) - (download.pdf - 1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Carol Gartrell The Origins and Development of the Baryton John R. Catch The Gambino Richard Charteris A Postscript to 'John Coprario: A Thematic Catalogue of His Music with a   Biographical Introduction' (New York 1977) Ian Graham-Jones Some Random Thoughts on Pitch in English Viol Consort Music in the   Seventeenth Century Andrew Ashbee A Not Unapt Scholar: Bulstrode Whitelock (1605-1675) Adrian Rose Another Collection of Pieces by Charles Dolle

	Volume 12 (1982) - (download.pdf - 5.2Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) John Harper The Distribution of the Consort Music of Orlando Gibbons in Seventeenth   Century Sources John M. Jennings Thomas Lupo Revisited - Is Key the Key to his Later Music? Lynn Hulse John Hingeston Gordon Dodd Tablature Without Tears Hazelle Miloradovitch Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Transcriptions for Viols of Music by Corelli &   Marais In the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris: Sonatas and 'Pieces de Viole'

	Volume 13 (1984) - (download.pdf - 5.2Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Peter Holman Thomas Baltzar (?1631-1663): The Incomperable Luciber on the Violin Alison Crum Improve Your Consort Playing: A Practical Study of John Jenkins Fantasy a 6 in   A minor, VdGs No. 8 Adrian Rose Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Premiere Lecon du Vendredy Saint: An Important   Source of Music for Solo Treble Viol Carl Hugo Agren Diatonic Fingering on Treble and Pardessus Viols

	Volume 14 (1985) - (download.pdf - 2Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Julie Anne Sadie Handel: In Pursuit of the Viol Lucy Robinson Notes on Editing the Bach Gamba Sonatas (BWV 1027-1029) Ian Woodfield The First Earl of Sandwich, a Performance of William Lawes in Spain and the   Origins of the Pardessus de Viole Ian Woodfield The Younger Sainte-Colombe in Edinburgh

	Volume 15 (1987) - (download.pdf - 1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Joan Wess Musica Transalpina, Parody, and the Emerging Jacobean Viol Fantasia John R. Catch Praetorius and English Viol Pitch Richard Charteris English Music in the Library of Moritz, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, in 1613 Graham Dixon Continuo Scoring in the Early Baroque: The Role of Bowed-Bass Instruments Margaret Urquhart The Handwriting of Christopher Simpson

	Volume 16 (1987) - (download.pdf - 1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) John Bennett John Oker/Okeover Richard Charteris The Origin of Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder's Six-Part Fantasia C224 Margaret Urquhart Sir Robert Bolles Bt. of Scampton Virginia Brookes The Four-Part In Nomines of John Ward Robert Ford Clement Woodcock's Appointment at Canterbury Cathedral

 

	Volume 17 (1988) - (download.pdf - 1.5Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Ian Payne British Library Add. Mss 30826-8: A Set of Part-Books from Trinity College,   Cambridge? Graham Nelson The Lyra-viol Variation Sets of William Corkine Graham Strahle Fantasy and Music in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England John R. Catch James Talbot's Viols

	Volume 18 (1989) - (download.pdf - 1.2Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Pamela Willetts Stephen Bing: A Forgotten Violist Calum McCart The Panmure Manuscripts: a New Look at an Old Source of Christopher   Simpson's Consort Music Michael Fleming Viol Drawings Tim Crawford Constantijn Huygens and the 'Engelsche Viool'

	Volume 19 (1990) - (download.pdf - 2.1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Ian Payne The Provision of Teaching on Viols at some English Cathedral Churches, c.1594- c.1645: Archival Evidence Robert Thompson The Sources of Locke's Consort 'for seaverall friends' Carl Hugo Agren The Use of Higher Positions on the Treble Viol Dietrich Kessler A Seven-String Bass Viol by Michael Colichon

	Volume 20 (1991) - (download.pdf - 2.7Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Robert Thompson 'Francis Withie of Oxon' and his commonplace book, Christchurch, Oxford, Ms   337 Pamela Willetts John Barnard's Collections of Viol and Vocal Music Annette Otterstedt The Spoon to the Soup: an Approach to the Lyra Viol Gordon Dodd A Study in Consort Interpretation: William Lawes's Six-Part Consort Set in G   minor

	Volume 21 (1992) - (download.pdf - 5.5Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Margaret Urquhart Was Christopher Simpson a Jesuit? Pamela Willetts John Lilly: A Redating Annette Otterstedt A Sentimental Journey through Germany and England (trans. Hans Reiners)   Adrian Rose Rudolph Dolmetsch (1906-1942): The First Modern Viola da Gamba Virtuoso

	Volume 22 (1993) - (download.pdf - 3.1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Richard Charteris A Rediscovered Manuscript Source with some previously unknown works by   John Jenkins, William Lawes and Benjamin Rogers Francois Pierre Goy Seventeenth-Century Viol Pieces in Settings for Plucked Strings   (c.1625-c.1700) Gordon Sandford Coprario's Cadence: Some Thoughts on Coprario's Four-Part Fantasia C21

	Volume 23 (1994) - (download.pdf - 5.1Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Ian Payne John Ward (c. 1589-1638): The Case for One Composer of the Madrigals,   Sacred Music and Five- and Six-Part Consorts Derry Bertenshaw Another Five-Part Piece by Thomas Lupo? Caroline Cunningham John Coprario's 'Rules how to compose' and his Four-Part Fantasias: Theory &   Practice Confronted Richard Charteris A Newly Discovered Manuscript Copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division Viol Francois Pierre Goy The Norwegian Viol Tablatures Andrew Ashbee The Society's Indexes: a Way Forward

	Volume 24 (1995) - (download.pdf - 8Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Robert Thompson A further look at the consort music manuscripts in Archbishop Marsh's Library,   Dublin David McGuiness Gibbons's solo songs reconsidered Adrian Rose The Pardessus de viole: Notes for a master's thesis Mark Smith The cello bow held the viol-way; once common, but now almost forgotten

	Volume 25 (1996/97 double issue) - (download.pdf - 6Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Michael Fleming Paintings of viols in England c.1580-1660 Dominic Gwynn The sound of the seventeenth century English chamber organ Annette Otterstedt The compatibility of the viol consort with the organ in the early seventeenth   century Andrew Ashbee The late fantasias of John Jenkins Matthew Spring The English lute 'fantasia-style' and the music of Cuthbert Hely Cathie Miserandino- The codicology and rastrology of GB-Ob Mus.Sch.MSS c.64-9: Manuscripts in Gaherty support of transmission theory Robert Thompson The sources of Purcell's fantasias Peter Holman Henry Purcell and Joseph Gibbs: A new source of the three-part fantasias   Z732 and Z734 David Pinto Purcell's In Nomines: A tale of two manuscripts (perhaps three) Graham Nelson A case for the early provenance of the Cartwright lyra-viol manuscript

	Volume 26 (1998)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Bruce Bellingham Alphonso Ferrabosco II: the art of the fantasia Derry Bertenshaw Madrigals and madrigalian fantasies: the five-part consort music of John   Coprario and Thomas Lupo Virginia Brookes The four-part fantasias of John Ward: one composer or two? Caroline Cunningham Variety and unity in the fantasias of John Coprario

	Volume 27 (1999) - (download.pdf - 6.7Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Christopher Field The Composer's Workshop: Revisions in the consort music of Alfonso   Ferrabosco the Younger David Pinto Marsh, Mico and Attributions Margaret Urquhart A possible trace of Christopher Simpson (S.J.)

	Volume 28 (2000) - (download.pdf - 2.7Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Michael Fleming Unpacking the 'Chest of Viols' Tilman Muthesius The English Chest of Viols Ian Payne 'The first that ever he made': Byrd's First Pavan and Galliard and Techniques of   Transcription and Reconstruction in the 'Lost' Consort Dances Hans Reiners Baroque Bows

	Volume 29 (2001) - (download.pdf - 6.5Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Richard Charteris New Connections between Eastern Europe and Works by Philips, Dowland,   Marais and Others Lynn Hulse The Duke of Newcastle and the English Viol Mark Summers La mort de la viole en France pendant le dix-huitieme siecle: an enquiry into the   viol's fall from grace Michael Fleming A Bookseller's Catalogue of 1657 Richard Turbet The Myth of Byrd's Lost Consort Dances

	Volume 30 (2002) - (download.pdf - 1.4Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Virginia Brookes In Nomine: an obscure designation Ian Payne New Light on 'New Fashions' by William Cobbold (1560-1639) of Norwich Anne Graf A Seventeenth-Century Music Manuscript Samantha Owens The Hand Gamba

	Volume 31 (2003) - (download.pdf - 1.2Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) Pamela J. Willetts Who was Richard Gibbon(s)? Michael Fleming How Long is a Piece of String? Understanding seventeenth-century descriptions of viols David J. Rhodes The Viola da Gamba, its Repertory and Practitioners in the Late Eighteenth   Century

	Volume 32 (2004) - (download.pdf - 4.4Mb)
	CONTENTS (click to open and close) David Pinto Placing Hatton's Great Set   A Little-known Collection of Canzonas Rediscovered: The Canzoni a cinque da   sonarsi con le Viole da gamba by Cherubino Waesich (Rome, 1632) - FLORIAN   GRAMPP Towards a More Consistent and More Historical View of Bach's Violoncello -   LAMBERT SMIT