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   The Viola da Gamba Society Journal

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It is hoped and intended that the new journal will be published annually and that it will continue to be a significant forum for research into bowed string instruments, particularly the viols. If circumstances allow, each issue will emphasise a particular 'theme', although non-themed articles may be included alongside these. This first issue, edited by Andrew Ashbee, is concerned with 'sources'. Volume Two (2008) will be edited by Peter Holman and will highlight viol music after the 'golden age' of the seventeenth century. In recent years restrictions on the size of Chelys have 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 will find a place in the new Journal.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume One (2007) - download PDF (4.2 MB) - click HERE.
 
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

Volume Two, Part one (2008) - download PDF (6.4 MB) - click HERE.
 
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 Graham’s Copy in the National Library
     of Scotland – JOHN H. ROBINSON
17
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) - click HERE.
 
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 Three, Part One (2009) - download PDF (7.8 MB) - click HERE.
 
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) - click HERE.
 
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

Offers of articles will be welcomed. Please contact:

Dr. Andrew Ashbee,
214, Malling Road,
Snodland,
Kent ME6 5EQ
(e-mail: aa0060962@blueyonder.co.uk)

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