Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

by Michael Fleming and John Bryan

Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Thomas Mace (1676) writes that 'old English viols' are ideal, and names five English makers than whom 'there are no Better in the World'. To understand and play this music we need reliable information and suitable viols. Neither can be derived exclusively from old instruments because of their rarity, inaccessibility, and degradation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472468546
• ISBN13: 9781472468543
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"