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Books & Book Chapters

Solo Authored Book

The Lute in Britain,

A History of the Lute and its Music,

Oxford Early Music Series (Oxford, OUP, 2001),

512 pages, 0-19-816620-6. 

Winner of the Bessaraboff Prize for the best book on instruments published in 2000 and 2001, awarded by the American Musical Instrument Society in 2002.

Book Chapters

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Christopher Page and Michael Fleming, eds., Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age
(Boydell and Brewer, 2021), chapters on the lute pp.101–112 and on the lute book pp.
161–170.

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The Loder Family: Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Bath, ed. Nicholas Temperley published by Boydell and Brower (2016) Chapter on ‘The Musical Life of Bath 1800-1850’.

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Lute and lute music in 17 th -century Holland. Proceedings of the International Lute
symposium, Utrecht 30 August 2013 ed.
Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford, Louis Peter Grijp,
Matthew Spring (eds.) Chapter titled: ‘“A goose among swans.” The connections and
correspondence between Jacques Gaultier and Constantijn Huygens’ (Cambridge, 2016).

Henry VIII and his Afterlives- Literatur

Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art, ed. Mark Rankin and Christopher
Highley, ‘Henry VIII’s Musical Contribution and Posthumous Reputation’ (Cambridge:
CUP, 2009), 190-208.

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From Renaissance to Baroque (Ashgate, 2005), ed. Jonathon Wainwright and Peter Holman, ‘The Lute in Transition’ (Bodmin: Ashgate, 2005), 173-190.

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Studies in English Consort Music: John Jenkins and his Time, ed. Andrew Ashbee and Peter Holman, `Jenkin's Lute Music - An approach to reconstructing the "Multitudes of Lute Lessons"' (Oxford: OUP, 1996), 309-324.

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The Hoogsteder Exhibition of Music and Painting in the Golden Age, ed. Edwin Buijsen and Louis Peter Grip.  Articles on lutes and viols (The Hague: Hoogsteder and Hoogsteder, 1994), 346-349; 354-357.

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The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, The Seventeenth Century, ed. Ian Spink. Chapter 11, Solo Music for Tablature Instruments, (Oxford: Blackwells, 1992), 367-406.

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