Chelys vol. 32 (2004) is the final issue in its current form. There are currently plans to produce an on-line journal:
- The title will be The Viola da Gamba Society Journal (the name Chelys will refer just to the 32 journals issued 1969-2004). There are plans to make Chelys available on-line too and work is in hand to prepare the material, beginning with the out-of-print numbers.
- The first issue will go on-line in 2007.
- The Journal will be issued annually.
- Editors will be invited to be responsible for a single issue. Dr Andrew Ashbee has agreed to edit volume one (2007) and Dr Peter Holman volume two (2008).
- Andrew Ashbee will also act as editor-in-chief/supervising editor to ensure consistency.
- All articles will be peer-reviewed.
- We hope to have 'themed issues', but articles could/would be included which are outside the principal theme. Current suggestions include (1) 'sources' (ed. Andrew Ashbee); (2) 'the more recent history of the viol' (ed. Peter Holman); 'the viol on the continent'; 'viols as instruments';…
- For reviews, we need to avoid unnecessary clashes with The Viol and discussions about this will take place. The Journal may restrict reviews just to major publications such as Musica Britannica and some important books. Sheet music publications and CDs will continue to be reviewed in The Viol.
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Volume 1 (1969) (download.pdf - 1.6Mb) |
| 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 |
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Volume 2 (1970) (download.pdf
- 1.8Mb) |
| 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 Parts. Ed. Phillip Lord, Oxford,
1970 |
| Gordon Dodd |
Book review 2: Pamela J. Willetts. A Handlist
of Music Manuscripts acquired 1908- 1967. London, 1970
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| 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 |
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Volume 3 (1971) (download.pdf
- 750Kb) |
| 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. Field |
Book review: Rosamond E. M. Harding, A Thematic
Catalogue of the Works of 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 |
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Volume 4 (1972) (download.pdf
- 1.4Mb) |
| 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. Harding |
Music review 2: Matthew Locke: Chamber Music:
I, II, Musica Britannica XXXI, 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 |
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Volume 5 (1973-4) (download.pdf
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| 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
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| 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 |
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Volume 6 (1975/76) |
| 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 |
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Volume 7 (1977) |
| David Baker |
The Instrumental Consort Music of Robert Parsons |
John Bennett &
Pamela Willetts |
Richard Mico |
| 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 |
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Volume 8 (1978/79)
(download.pdf - 1.5Mb) |
| 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 |
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Volume 9 (1980) |
| 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 |
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Volume 10 (1981) |
| David & Jennifer Baker |
The Browning [I] |
| Michael Goater |
The Maker's Viol |
| David Pinto |
The Fantasy Manner: the seventeenth-century context |
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Volume 11 (1982) |
| 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 |
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Volume 12 (1983) |
| 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' |
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Volume 13 (1984) |
| 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 |
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Volume 14 (1985) |
| 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 |
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Volume 15 (1986) |
| 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 |
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Volume 16 (1987) (download.pdf - 1Mb) |
| 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 |
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Volume 17 (1988) |
| 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 |
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Volume 18 (1989) |
| 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' |
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Volume 19 (1990) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
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Volume 21 (1992) (download.pdf - 5.5Mb) |
| Margaret Urquhart |
Was Christopher Simpson a Jesuit? |
| Pamela Willetts |
John Lilly: A Redating |
Annette Otterstedt
(trans. Hans
Reiners) |
A Sentimental Journey through Germany and England |
| Adrian Rose |
Rudolph Dolmetsch (1906-1942): The First Modern
Viola da Gamba Virtuoso |
| |
Volume 22 (1993) |
| 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 |
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Volume 23 (1994) |
| 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 |
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Volume 24 (1995) (download.pdf - 8Mb) |
| 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) |
| 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-Gaherty |
The codicology and rastrology of GB-Ob Mus.Sch.MSS c.64-9:
Manuscripts in 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 |
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Volume 26 (1998) |
| 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 |
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Volume 27 (1999) (download.pdf - 6.7Mb) |
| 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.) |
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Volume 28 (2000) |
| 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 |
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Volume 29 (2001) (download.pdf - 6.5Mb) |
| 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 |
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Volume 30 (2002) |
| 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 |
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Volume 31 (2003) |
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| 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 |
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Volume 32 (2004) |
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| David Pinto |
Placing Hatton's Great Set |
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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 |
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