Matthew Sping Academia
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

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.

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’.

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).




