Synopsis of Vocal Musick, by the unidentified A.B., was published in London in 1680 and appears to have only ever had one edition. Its relatively short shelf-li

Thus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principle

This is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original