The Viola da Gamba Society Journal

The 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 emphasises 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. 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 Journal.
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Table of Contents (in reverse chronological order)

Volume Eleven (2017) - download PDF

Editorial

The 'British' Saint-Colombes - FRANCOIS-PIERRE GOY

Jean (-Baptiste) Cappus = the forgotten violist: an inventory of his life and works - JONATHAN DUNFORD and YVAN BEUVARD

'Perslis Clocke', or, how to break a buttefly upon a dial - DAVID PINTO

Charles Frederick Abel's Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue, Second Revised Version - PETER HOLMAN and GUENTER VON ZADOW [revised pages replaced April 2018]

Book and Music Reviews

Michael Fleming and John Bryan: Early English Viols - Instruments, Makers and Music - SHEM MACKEY

Notes on Contributors

Volume Ten (2016) - download PDF
Please note that this is an updated version as from 10 June 2017, with corrections to the article about the Ledenburg Collection

Editorial

The Division Viol - an overview - MYRNA HERZOG

An Amateur Viol Player in the Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Thysius (1622-1653) - JAN W. J. BURGERS

The Works for Viola da Gamba in the Ledenburg Collection - GUENTER VON ZADOW

Books and Music Reviews: David Dolata, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols - Stewart McCoy | Michael Robertson, Consort Suites and dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe | Richard Carter; Georg Philipp Telemann, 12 Fantasias for solo Viola da Gamba | Susanne Heinrich

Notes on Contributors

Volume Nine (2015) - download PDF

Editorial

Consort Anthem, Orlando Gibbons - DAVID PINTO

A List of Manuscripts containing Consort Music found in the Thematic Index - ANDREW ASHBEE

Review: Leipzig Church Music from the Sherard Collection - PETER HOLMAN

Louis Couperin, The extant music for wind and string instruments - PIA PIRCHER

Letter

Volume Eight (2014) - download PDF

Editorial

Redefining the Viola Bastarda: A Most Spurious Subject - JOELLE MORTON

A Time When All was Abelish - THOMAS FRITZSCH

Review: Abel, Second Pembroke Collection, edition and CD - PETER HOLMAN

Carl Friedrich Abel's Viola da Gamba Music. A new catalogue - revised version - PETER HOLMAN

La basse de viole apres la mort de Marin Marais - Pia Pircher

Reviews

Tessa Murray: Thomas Morley, Eliabethan Music Publisher - JOHN MILSOM

David J. Smith & Rachelle Taylor (eds): Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries - ALAN BROWN

A German Baroque Viol Tutor. Anonymous: Instruction oder ein anweisung auff die Violadigamba (Instruction or Method for the Viola da Gamba). Facsimile edition Bettina Hoffman - RICHARD CARTER

Notes on the Contributors

Volume Seven (2013) - download PDF

Editorial

John Merro's Manuscript revisited - ANDREW ASHBEE

British Library MS Mus 249 - ROBERT SMITH

John Blow and Johann Kaspar Kerll: a Puzzle solved - PETER HOLMAN

More on Polewheel - ANDREW ASHBEE

Book Reviews

John Morehen and David Mateer (eds.), Thomas Ravenscroft: Rounds, Canons and Songs from printed sources, Musica Britannica 93, London 2012 - IAN PAYNE

Ut Orpheus Editions of Italian Consort Music - PETER HOLMAN

Letter to the Editor

Volume Six (2012) - download PDF

Editorial

Thomas Mace and a sense of 'humour. The case for expression in 17th-Century English instrumental music' - WENDY HANCOCK

Terpsichore at 400: Michael Praetorius as a Collector of Dance Music - PETER HOLMAN

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

Book Reviews

Aurelio Bianco, Nach englischer und frantzoesischer Art, Vie et oeuvre de Carlo Farina - PETER HOLMAN

Friedemann & Barbara Hellwig, Joachim Tielke, Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock - RICHARD CARTER

Mary Cyr, Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music - RICHARD SUTCLIFFE

Purcell Society Edition, Companion Series, vol 4: Restoration Trio Sonatas - ANDREW ASHBEE

Notes on the Contributors

Volume Five (2011) - download PDF

Editorial

The mystery of Polewheel and his Ground - ANDREW ASHBEE

A fresh look at B-Bc, MS Litt. XY 24910 - PATXI DEL AMO

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

Viol music on the Internet - PETER HOLMAN

Book Reviews

Peter Holman, Life after Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch - SIMON McVEIGH

Charles E. Brewer, The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their

Contemporaries - RICHARD CARTER

Christopher Marsh, Music and Society in Early Modern England - ANDREW ASHBEE

John Harley, The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates - ANDREW ASHBEE

Notes on the Contributors

Volume Four (2010) - download PDF

Editorial

Blessed Wings: JOSE VAZQUEZ

Charles Dieupart's Six suittes (1701–1702) and the en concert Performance Tradition - MATTHEW HALL

Charles Frederick Abel's Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue - PETER HOLMAN

The Partiturbuch Ludwig: An Introduction and Thematic Catalogue - MICHAEL FUERST

BOOK REVIEWS

Carol A. Gartrell, A History of the Baryton and its Music: King of Instruments, Instrument of Kings - JEREMY BROOKER

John Birchensha: Writings on Music, ed. Christopher D. S. Field and Benjamin Wardhaugh - ALAN HOWARD

Michael Robertson, The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe, 1650-1706 - RICHARD CARTER

Metoda Kokole, Isaac Posch, 'diditus Eois Hesperiisque plagis - Praised in the Lands of Dawn and Sunset' - PETER HOLMAN

John Cunningham, The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645 - DAVID PINTO

MUSIC REVIEWS

John Jenkins, Five-Part Consort Music, ed. David Pinto - ANDREW ASHBEE

John Jenkins, Fantasia-Suites, ed. Andrew Ashbee - JOHN CUNNINGHAM

William Croft, Complete Chamber Music, ed. Harry Diack Johnstone - ANDREW WOOLLEY

CORRESPONDENCE

Unequal Temperaments: Revisited - CLAUDIO DI VEROLI

Notes on the Contributors

Volume Three, Part One (2009) - download PDF

Editorial

Lyra Viol Ecclesiastica: A Neglected Manuscript Source in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin - JOHN CUNNINGHAM

Clamor Heinrich Abel's Dritter Theil Musicalischer Blumen, 1677: A Lost Source of Lyra Consort Music - RICHARD CARTER

A Jacobean bass viol book in Cornwall - MIKE O'CONNOR, OBE & ANDREW ASHBEE

The Rediscovery of the Viol in the Jugendbewegung - SANDRA ZYDEK, introduced and translated by Richard Carter

Volume Three, Part Two (2009) - download PDF

Byrd's music arranged for instruments by his contemporaries - RICHARD TURBET

The Identities of the Viols in the Ashmolean Museum - MICHAEL FLEMING

BOOK REVIEWS

Michael O'Loghlin, Frederick the Great and his Musicians. The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School - Samantha Owens

Claudio Di Veroli, Unequal Temperaments: Theory, History and Practice (Scales, Tuning and Intonation in Musical Performance) - Bradley Lehman

MUSIC REVIEWS

Joseph Haydn, 28 Divertimenti a tre, Hob. XI, 97-126 (Edition Guentersberg, G179-183) - Carol A. Gartrell

The Manchester Gamba Book (Facsimile, Peacock Press) - Richard Carter

Notes on the contributors

Volume Two, Part one (2008) - download PDF

The Nomenclature of the Viol in Italy - BETTINA HOFFMANN translated by RICHARD CARTER and JOHN STEEDMAN

John Leyden's Lyra Viol Manuscript in Newcastle University Library and George Farquhar

Graham's Copy in the National Library of Scotland - JOHN H. ROBINSON

Laurence Sterne the Musician - PETER HOLMAN

Laurence Sterne, Charles Frederick Abel and the Viol - CLAIRE BERGET

REVIEWS

The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts, vol. 2 - David Pinto

Mary Cyr, Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music - Susanne Heinrich

William Lawes, The Harp Consorts (PRB Viol Consort Series, no. 62) - John Cunningham

Volume Two, Part Two (July 2009) - download PDF

The Pardessus Book of Mademoiselle Rochette - RICHARD SUTCLIFFE

An inventory of DK-Kk, CI, 10; mu 6403 2402 - ANDREW ASHBEE

Réponce de Monsieur Rousseau - SHAUN K. F. NG

Notes on the contributors

Volume One (2007) - download PDF

Manuscripts of Consort Music in London, c.1600-1625:some Observations - ANDREW ASHBEE

Continuity and Change in English Bass Viol Music: the Case of Fitzwilliam Mu. MS 647 - PETER HOLMAN

William Young, Englishman - STEPHEN MORRIS

REVIEWS

John Jenkins: three-part fantasias (Musica Britannica vol. 70) & Fantasia-Suites I (Musica Britannica vol. 78) - Christopher Field

John Ward Consort Music (Musica Britannica vols. 67 and 83) - David Pinto

Anonymous Parisian Gamba duets (France, circa 1750) - Jonathan Dunford