Early English Viols : Instruments, Makers and Music
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
: A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Music
- Output identifier
- 21
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315578392
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472468543
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first book to undertake a detailed investigation specifically into the English viol: the instrument, its makers and its music in the period from the earliest records of viols in England (c. 1506) to 1642: its focus is the sixteenth century, an era in the viol’s history that was previously under-studied. The research entailed a unique collaboration between an instrument maker/archival researcher and a performer/musicologist: this combination of skills and the constant interaction between two authors throughout the writing of the book constitutes a particularly original approach to the study. The book is structured through a number of discrete but interrelated topics, each focusing on a different type of source material: archival records of viol making and owning; surviving historical instruments; iconography; physical resources available to makers; and their music. This last topic uses an innovative analysis of ranges and registers in surviving music suitable for viols to determine what composers might have expected from the instruments that performed it. The research for this book developed from the work of the AHRC-funded project The Making of the Tudor Viol (2009–2014; £268,000; PI Bryan), a grant that recognised the importance and timeliness of the investigation. The book’s significance and an indication of its world-leading research is indicated by the 2018 Nicholas Bessaroff Prize awarded by the American Musical Instrument Society for the best book in English on musical instruments in 2017. The process of researching this book entailed regular meetings between the authors over a period of seven years, the co-authorship of several sections of the book, symposia and conference papers delivered by the writers to gain further insights from potential readers, and regular rehearsal and performance opportunities to put practical outcomes to test. This all ensures a work of consistency and rigour.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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