Matthew Spring read music and history at Keele University and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil on the lute, and is currently Reader in Music at Bath Spa University. He performs with a number of Early Music ensembles and has made a large number of recordings. His book The Lute in Britain, A History of the Lute and its Music (2001) was the Winner of the AMIS Bessaraboff Prize. He has worked extensively on lute music and received an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to complete his edition of the The Balcarres Manuscript (2010).
2 Ebooks by Matthew Spring
Jan W.J. Burgers & Tim Crawford: Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
The lute played a central role in the rich musical culture of the seventeenth-century ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic. Like the piano in the nineteenth century, the lute was not just a popular …
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€95.78
Nicholas Nicholas Temperley: Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his Family
This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures, using them to illustrate aspects of music history in the 19th cen …
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€32.99
