Lira Da Braccio

<p>This is an essential book for those interested in renaissance instrumentation as well as for potential players. --Early Music Review<br /><br />Sterling Scott Jones wrote a marvelous and very welcome work which can be warmly recommended to all musicians musicologists and instrument makers interested in early music its instruments and performance pratice. . . . This work is of the highest scholarly and at the same time practical value (which is extremely rare!): It certainly opens up a new era in the research and use of the lira da braccio. --RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter<br /><br />Sterling Scott Jone's exceptional book is . . . welcome as a practical study of the instrument with its emphasis on iconography and with its fingering charts tuning instructions and playable musical examples. --The Consort: European Journal of Early Music<br /><br />The 16th-century lira da braccio may be the missing link between the medieval fiddle and the modern violin. This is a brief history of the lira da braccio a handbook for its use and selected repertoire.</p>