Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

by John Bryan and Michael Fleming

Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize

Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that 'Your Best Provision' for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which 'there are no Better in the World'. Enlightened scholars and performers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367229684
• ISBN13: 9780367229689
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"