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Volume 1 (1969) - (download.pdf)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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. London, Stainer & Bell, 1970
• Joan Wess Music review 2: Michael East. Eight Fantasies of Five Parts (1610). London, Stainer & Bell

Volume 4 (1972) - (download.pdf)

• 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 Agren 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

Volume 26 (1998) (download.pdf)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• David Pinto Placing Hatton's Great Set
• FLORIAN GRAMPP - A Little-known Collection of Canzonas Rediscovered: The Canzoni a cinque da sonarsi con le Viole da gamba by Cherubino Waesich (Rome, 1632)
• LAMBERT SMIT - Towards a More Consistent and More Historical View of Bach's Violoncello