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Ian Woodfield, The Early History of the Viol.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii + 266 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Mary Cyr
Mary Cyr
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McGill University
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Early Music History , Volume 6 , October 1986 , pp. 271 - 278
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References

1 See, for example, Galpin, F. W., Old English Instruments of Music (London, 1910; fourth revised edition, 1965), pp. 64–5;Google ScholarBessaraboff, N., Ancient Musical Instruments (Boston, 1941), p. 267;Google Scholar and Hayes, G. R., Musical Instruments and their Music, 1500–1700, 2 vols. (London, 1928 and 1930), ii: The Viols and Other Bowed Instruments, p. 56Google Scholar.

2 Dart, R. T., ‘The Viols’, in Baines, A., ed., Musical Instruments through the Ages (London, 1961), pp. 184–90; Woodfield, p. 3.Google Scholar

3 These two points are also raised by Howard Mayer Brown in ‘The Trecento Harp’, Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, ed. Boorman, S. (Cambridge, 1983), p. 40.Google Scholar