The new journal is published approximately annually and continues to be a significant forum for research into bowed string instruments, particularly the viols. As far as circumstances allow, each issue will emphasise a particular 'theme', although non-themed articles may be included alongside these. The first issue, edited by Andrew Ashbee, is concerned with 'sources'. Volume Two (2008), edited by Peter Holman, highlights viol music after the 'golden age' of the seventeenth century. In recent years restrictions on the size of Chelys prevented the appearance of reviews of some important editions and books. Although it is expected that the bulk of sheet music reviews will continue to appear in the Society’s quarterly The Viol, extended reviews of major publications find a place in the new Journal.

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Volume Six (2012) - download PDF (1MB)

CONTENTS Editorial Thomas Mace and a sense of 'humour. The case for expression in 17th-Century English instrumental music' – WENDY HANCOCK   1 Terpsichore at 400: Michael Praetorius as a Collector of Dance Music – PETER HOLMAN   34 An investigation into the anonymous setting of William Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine for two lyra viols. Part two: 'Harsh progressions and monstrous combinations' – RICHARD CARTER   52       Book Reviews     Aurelio Bianco, Nach englischer und frantzoesischer Art, Vie et oeuvre de Carlo Farina – PETER HOLMAN   67 Friedemann & Barbara Hellwig, Joachim Tielke, Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock – RICHARD CARTER   71 Mary Cyr, Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music –RICHARD SUTCLIFFE   80 Purcell Society Edition, Companion Series, vol 4: Restoration Trio Sonatas – ANDREW ASHBEE   82       Notes on the Contributors   85

Volume Five (2011) - download PDF (2MB)

CONTENTS   Editorial   iv The mystery of Polewheel and his Ground – ANDREW ASHBEE   1 A fresh look at B-Bc, MS Litt. XY 24910 – PATXI DEL AMO   14 An investigation into the anonymous setting of William Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine for two lyra viols. Part one: ' … two Base Viols, expressing five partes … ' – RICHARD CARTER   24 Viol music on the Internet – PETER HOLMAN   56       Book Reviews     Peter Holman, Life after Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch – SIMON McVEIGH   69       Charles E. Brewer, The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their   74 Contemporaries – RICHARD CARTER     Christopher Marsh, Music and Society in Early Modern England – ANDREW ASHBEE   92 John Harley, The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates – ANDREW ASHBEE   94             Notes on the Contributors   96

Volume Four (2010) - download PDF (7 MB)

CONTENTS Editorial   iv Blessed Wings: JOSÉ VÁZQUEZ   1 Charles Dieupart's Six suittes (1701–1702) and the en concert Performance Tradition -   6 MATTHEW HALL     Charles Frederick Abel's Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue – PETER HOLMAN   36 The Partiturbuch Ludwig: An Introduction and Thematic Catalogue – MICHAEL FUERST   74       BOOK REVIEWS     Carol A. Gartrell, A History of the Baryton and its Music: King of Instruments, Instrument of Kings – JEREMY BROOKER   103 John Birchensha: Writings on Music, ed. Christopher D. S. Field and Benjamin Wardhaugh – ALAN HOWARD   112 Michael Robertson, The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe, 1650-1706 – RICHARD CARTER   115 Metoda Kokole, Isaac Posch, 'diditus Eois Hesperiisque plagis – Praised in the Lands of Dawn and Sunset' – PETER HOLMAN   124 John Cunningham, The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645 – DAVID PINTO   127       MUSIC REVIEWS     John Jenkins, Five-Part Consort Music, ed. David Pinto – ANDREW ASHBEE   152 John Jenkins, Fantasia-Suites, ed. Andrew Ashbee – JOHN CUNNINGHAM   154 William Croft, Complete Chamber Music, ed. Harry Diack Johnstone – ANDREW   159 WOOLLEY           CORRESPONDENCE     Unequal Temperaments: Revisited – CLAUDIO DI VEROLI   164 Notes on the Contributors   183

	Volume Three, Part One (2009) - download PDF (7.8 MB)
	CONTENTS Editorial   iv Lyra Viol Ecclesiastica: A Neglected Manuscript Source in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin - JOHN CUNNINGHAM   1 Clamor Heinrich Abel's Dritter Theil Musicalischer Blumen, 1677: A Lost Source of Lyra Consort Music - RICHARD CARTER   55 A Jacobean bass viol book in Cornwall - MIKE O'CONNOR, OBE & ANDREW ASHBEE   83 The Rediscovery of the Viol in the Jugendbewegung - SANDRA ZYDEK, introduced and translated by Richard Carter   93

Volume Three, Part Two (2009) - download PDF (3 MB)

CONTENTS Byrd's music arranged for instruments by his contemporaries - RICHARD TURBET   113 The Identities of the Viols in the Ashmolean Museum - MICHAEL FLEMING   117       BOOK REVIEWS     Michael O'Loghlin, Frederick the Great and his Musicians. The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School - Samantha Owens   131 Claudio Di Veroli, Unequal Temperaments: Theory, History and Practice (Scales, Tuning and Intonation in Musical Performance) - Bradley Lehman   137       MUSIC REVIEWS     Joseph Haydn, 28 Divertimenti a tre, Hob. XI, 97-126 (Edition Güntersberg, G179-183) - Carol A. Gartrell   164 The Manchester Gamba Book (Facsimile, Peacock Press) - Richard Carter   169 Notes on the contributors   192

Volume Two, Part one (2008) - download PDF (6.4 MB)

CONTENTS The Nomenclature of the Viol in Italy – BETTINA HOFFMANN translated by RICHARD CARTER and JOHN STEEDMAN   1 John Leyden's Lyra Viol Manuscript in Newcastle University Library and George Farquhar   17 Graham's Copy in the National Library of Scotland – JOHN H. ROBINSON     Laurence Sterne the Musician – PETER HOLMAN   58 Laurence Sterne, Charles Frederick Abel and the Viol – CLAIRE BERGET   67       REVIEWS     The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts, vol. 2 – David Pinto   76 Mary Cyr, Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music– Susanne Heinrich   82 William Lawes, The Harp Consorts (PRB Viol Consort Series, no. 62) – John Cunningham   84

	Volume Two, Part Two (July 2009) - download PDF (2.3 MB)
	CONTENTS The Pardessus Book of Mademoiselle Rochette - RICHARD SUTCLIFFE   1 An inventory of DK-Kk, CI, 10; mu 6403 2402 - ANDREW ASHBEE   15 Réponce de Monsieur Rousseau—SHAUN K. F. NG   56 Notes on the contributors   75

	Volume One (2007) -  download PDF (4.2 MB)
	CONTENTS Manuscripts of Consort Music in London, c.1600-1625:some Observations - ANDREW ASHBEE   1 Continuity and Change in English Bass Viol Music: the Case of Fitzwilliam Mu. MS 647 - PETER HOLMAN   20 William Young, ‘Englishman’ - STEPHEN MORRIS   51       REVIEWS     John Jenkins: three-part fantasias (Musica Britannica vol. 70) & Fantasia-Suites I (Musica Britannica vol. 78) - Christopher Field   66 John Ward Consort Music (Musica Britannica vols. 67 and 83) - David Pinto   73 Anonymous Parisian Gamba duets (France, circa 1750) - Jonathan Dunford   78

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Snodland,
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