Peter Holman

Bibliography

June 1999

Books

  1. Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690 (Oxford, 1993)
  2. Henry Purcell (Oxford, 1994)
  3. John Jenkins and his Time: Studies in English Consort Music, edited with Andrew Ashbee (Oxford, 1996)
  4. John Dowland: Lachrimae (Cambridge, 1999)

Periodical Articles

  1. ‘The Instrumental and Orchestral Music of Samuel Wesley’, The Consort, 23 (1966), 175-9
  2. ‘Recreating Renaissance Theatre Music’, Recorder and Music Magazine, 3 (1971), 397-8
  3. (with Clifford Bartlett) ‘Giovanni Gabrieli: A Guide to the Performance of his Instrumental Music’, Early Music, 3 (1975), 25-32
  4. ‘Preliminary Checklist of Music for One or More Bass Viols with or without Continuo Printed before 1800’, Chelys, 5 (1973-4, pub. 1976), 62-7
  5. ‘George Jeffries and the "Great Dooble Base"’, ibid., 79-81
  6. ‘The Trumpet Sonata in England’, Early Music, 4 (1976), 424-9
  7. ‘Suites by Jenkins Rediscovered’, Early Music, 6 (1978), 25-35
  8. ‘Continuo Realisations in a Playford Songbook’, ibid., 268-9
  9. ‘The "Symphony"’, Chelys, 6 (1975-6, pub. 1978), 10-24
  10. ‘New Sources of Music by Robert Johnson’, The Lute Society Journal, 20 (1978), 43-52
  11. ‘The English Royal Violin Consort in the Sixteenth Century’, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 109 (1982-3), 39-59
  12. ‘Thomas Baltzar (?1631-1663), the "Incomperable Lubicer on the Violin"’, Chelys, (1984), 3-38
  13. ‘An Orchestral Suite by François Couperin?’, Early Music, 14 (1986), 71-6
  14. ‘A New Source of Restoration Keyboard Music’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 20 (1986-7), 53-7
  15. ‘The Harp in Stuart England: New Light on William Lawes’s Harp Consorts’, Early Music, 15 (1987), 188-203
  16. ‘Bartholomew Isaack and "Mr Isaack" of Eton: A Confusing Tale of Restoration Musicians’, The Musical Times, 128 (1987), 381-5
  17. ‘Heirs and Graces. Princely Patronage: Music in the Royal Household’, The Listener (16 June 1988), 43-4
  18. ‘Dido y Eneas: ¿ópera o masque?’, Scherzo, 5 (December 1989), 90-1
  19. ‘Valentinian, Rochester and Louis Grabu’, The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance (Essays in Honour of Frederick W. Sternfeld), ed. J. Caldwell, E. Olleson and S. Wollenberg (Oxford, 1990), 127-41
  20. ‘An Addicion of Wyer Stringes beside the Ordenary Stringes: The Origin of the Baryton’, A Compendium of Contemporary Musical Thought, ed. J. Paynter, R. Orton, P. Seymour and T. Howell (London, 1992), 1098-1115
  21. ‘The Importance of the Consort’ [The Origin of the Violin], The Strad, 103 (1992), 906-8
  22. ‘Pride or Prejudice? A Plea for English Eighteenth-Century Music’, The Musical Times, 133 (1992), 504-5
  23. ‘"Col Noblissima Esercitio della Vivuola": Monteverdi’s String Writing’, Early Music, 21 (1993), 577-90
  24. ‘Eastern Uprising’ [Early Music in Eastern Europe], BBC Music Magazine, 2 (March 1994), 53
  25. ‘Mystery Man’ [Heinrich Biber], The Musical Times, 135 (1994), 437-41
  26. ‘Purcell and Roseingrave: A New Autograph’, Purcell Studies, ed. C.A. Price (Cambridge, 1995)
  27. ‘A Changing Perception’ [The Symphony and the Audience], The Symphony, BBC Music Magazine Special (London, 1995), 20-1
  28. ‘The Baroque Concerto’, The Concerto, BBC Music Magazine Special (London, 1995), 22-4
  29. ‘Purcell and the Orchestra’, The Musical Times, 137 (1996), 17-23
  30. ‘Thomas Arne and Artaxerxes’, The Musical Times, 137 (1996), 19-21
  31. ‘Original Sets of Parts for Restoration Concerted Music at Oxford’, Performing the Music of Henry Purcell, ed. M. Burden (Oxford, 1996), 9-19, 265-71
  32. ‘"Evenly, Softly, and Sweetly Acchording to All": The Organ Accompaniment of English Consort Music’, John Jenkins and his Time: Studies in English Consort Music, ed. A. Ashbee and P. Holman (Oxford, 1996), 353-82
  33. ‘The Early String Quartet: Preconceptions and Misconceptions’, The String Quartet, BBC Music Magazine Special (USA, 1996), 29
  34. Introduction, The Gallery Tradition: Aspects of Georgian Psalmody, ed. C. E. Turner (Ketton, 1997), ix-xi
  35. ‘Henry Purcell and Joseph Gibbs: A New Source of the Three-Part Fantasias Z732 and Z734’, Chelys, 25 (1998), 97-100
  36. ‘The Crying Game’ [Dowland and Melancholy], BBC Music Magazine (September 1998), 39-40
  37. ‘The Violin in Tudor and Stuart England’, The British Violin: Historical Aspects of Violin and Bow Making in the British Isles, ed. J. Milnes (Oxford, 1999), 3-10
  38. ‘Performing Psalmody: A Personal View’, Georgian Psalmody 2: The Interaction between Urban and Rural Practice (Corby Glen, 1999), 91-4
  39. ‘Dowland: Lachrimae’, Goldberg, 6 (1999), 41-7
  40. ‘Eighteenth-Century English Music: Past, Present, Future’, Music in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. D. Wyn Jones (Aldershot, forthcoming)
  41. ‘The Rise of Instrumental Music’, Music in Venice, BBC Music Magazine Special
  42. (forthcoming)
  43. ‘The Colchester Part-Books’, Early Music (forthcoming)
  44. ‘Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers: What Next?’, Early Music Quarterly (forthcoming)
  45. ‘A New Source of Jacobean Lute Music’, The Lute (forthcoming)

Contributions to Symposia

  1. ‘The British Isles: Private and Public Music’, Companion to Baroque Music, ed. J.A. Sadie (London, 1990), 261-9
  2. ‘Music at the Court of Henry VIII’, Henry VIII: A European Court in England, ed. D. Starkey (London, 1991), 104-6
  3. 3. ‘Theatre Music 1603-1642’, The Seventeenth Century, ed. I. Spink, The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, 3 (Oxford, 1992), 282-305
  4. ‘London: Commonwealth and Restoration’, The Early Baroque Era, ed. C.A. Price, Man & Music (London, 1993), 305-26
  5. ‘Consort Music’, The Purcell Companion, ed. M. Burden (London, 1995)
  6. ‘Court and Country (1603-1660)’, and ‘Pride or Prejudice? (1715-1800)’, Fairest Isle, ed. D. Fraser (London, 1995)
  7. ‘Notation and Interpretation’, The ABRSM Performer’s Guide to Baroque Music, ed. A. Burton (forthcoming)

Contributions to Collected Works and Scholarly Series

  1. Extended introduction to: M. Locke, The Rare Theatrical (New York Public Library, Drexel MS 3976, Music for London Entertainment, series A, vol. 4 (London,1989)
  2. Revision (with M. Tilmouth and A. Browning) of: H. Purcell, Fantazias and other Instrumental Music, Works, 31 (London, 2/1990)

Editions

  1. The Division Recorder (collected edition of English grounds for recorder), 2 vols. (New York, 1979)
  2. G. Finger, Sonata in B flat for Two Oboes/Violins and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1979)
  3. G. Finger, Two Sonatas for Two Treble Recorders, Two Oboes and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1979)
  4. G. Finger, Sonata in C for Oboe/Trumpet, Violin and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1979)
  5. W. Daman, Fantasia di Sei Soprani (London, Mapa Mundi, 1980)
  6. M. Locke, Suite in G from Tripla Concordia (London, Nova Music, 1980)
  7. Music at the Royal Court of London ca 1620: Pieces by Nicholas Lanier, Thomas Holmes, Robert Johnson and Thomas Ford (Celle, Moeck, 1980)
  8. J. Theile, Sonata à 4 for Two Violins, Trombone, Bassoon and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1980)
  9. J. Weldon, Suite in D minor for Two Violins and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1980)
  10. G. Keller, Sonata 1 in D major for Trumpet or Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo (London, OUP, 1981)
  11. J. Paisible?, Sonata in D for Trumpet/Oboe, Two Violins and Basso Continuo (London, OUP, 1981)
  12. N. Matteis, Suite in D minor, Ayres for the Violin: Book 4 (London, OUP, 1981)
  13. A. Bassano, Pavans and Galliards in Five Parts, The Royal Wind Music, 1 (London, Nova Music, 1981).
  14. J. Bassano, Four Fantasias in Five Parts, The Royal Wind Music, 2 (London, Nova Music, 1981)
  15. G. Fantini, Twelve Dances for Trumpet in C and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1981)
  16. A. Notari, Canzona Passaggiata for Violin and Basso Continuo (London, Nova Music, 1981)
  17. W. Croft, Complete Harpsichord Works, ed. H. Ferguson and C. Hogwood (addition of two hitherto unknown suites) (London, Stainer & Bell, 2/1982)
  18. C. Coleman and N. Lanier, Two Suites in Five Parts, The Royal Wind Music, 3 (London, Nova Music, 1982)
  19. N. Matteis, Concerto in C for Three Trumpets (with reconstructed string, recorder and timpani parts) (London, Nova Music, 1982)
  20. P. van Wilder, Fantasia con Pause et Senza Pause (Corby, Earlham Press, 1983)
  21. Seven Dances from the Court of Henry VIII (reconstructed from British Library, R.A. MS 58) (Corby, Earlham Press, 1983)
  22. Nine Dances from the Court of Elizabeth (reconstructed from virginal MSS) (Corby, Earlham Press, 1983)
  23. W. McGibbon, Three Sonatas for Flute or Violin and Continuo, Orpheus Caledonius, 1 (Edinburgh, Hardie Press, 1991)
  24. W. McGibbon, Three Sonatas for Two Flutes or Violins and Continuo, Orpheus Caledonius, 2 (Edinburgh, Hardie Press, 1991)
  25. F. Geminiani and J. Oswald, Trio Sonatas on Scots Tunes, Orpheus Caledonius, 3 (Edinburgh, Hardie Press, 1994)
  26. A Christmas Celebration (anthology of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English parish church music), with Sally Drage (London, Faber Music, 1997)
  27. J. Paisible, She Wou’d and She Wou’d Not (1702), Restoration Theatre Suites, 1 (St
  28. Albans, Corda Music, 1997)
  29. J. Eccles, The Mad Lover (1701), Restoration Theatre Suites, 2 (St Albans, Corda Music, 1998)
  1. attrib. J. Haydn, Deutschlands Klage auf den Tod des großen Friedrichs Borußens König (incuding a reconstruction of the lost baryton part), Dr Holman’s Restorative, 1 (St Albans, Corda Music, 1998)
  2. Vital Spark of Heav’nly Flame (anthology of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English parish church music for Passiontide and Easter), with Sally Drage (London, Faber Music, forthcoming)
  3. H. Biber, Salve Regina (1663) (including a reconstruction of the lost soprano part), Dr Holman’s Restorative, 2 (St Albans, Corda Music, forthcoming)
  4. F. Couperin, Concert dans le goût théatral (including a reconstruction of the missing parties de remplissage), Dr Holman’s Restorative, 3 (St Albans, Corda Music, forthcoming)

Dictionaries

I have contributed to The Longman New Universal Dictionary, The New Grove, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Oxford Companion to Music, and The Viking Opera Guide, and am writing or revising the following articles for the current revision of The New Grove (major articles are in bold):

John Adson, Thomas Arne, Thomas Baltzar, Bass Violin, Philip Beckett, Ambrose Beeland, Thomas Blagrave, Capel Bond, Henry Bowman, William Brade, William Byron, William Cole, Charles Dieupart, Eccles family, Thomas Farmer, Daniel Farrant, Gottfried Finger, Edward Finch, James Fisin, Francis Forcer, John Gamble, Joseph Gibbs, Louis Grabu, Thomas Greeting, William Gregory, William Hall, William Howes, George Hudson, Bartholomew Isaack, Simon Ives, Gottfried Keller, Robert King, Benjamin Lamb, John Frederick Lampe, John Lenton, Matthew Locke, London, Music at Court - king’s band, other secular musicians, Davis Mell, Richard Motley, Stephen Nau, Valentine Oldis, Nicolas Pickart, Francis Pigott, Henry Purcell and the Purcell family, Quinte, Valentine Reading, Benjamin Rogers, Daniel Roseingrave, Joseph Shirley, Obadiah Shuttleworth, Robert Smith, Thomas Simpson, Robert Taylor, Sylvanus Taylor, Tollett family, Violin - history and repertory to 1600, Maurice Webster, William Williams, William Young.

Journalism

I have contributed reviews and other journalism to BBC Music Magazine, Chelys, Early Music, Early Music History, Early Music News, Early Music Review, Early Music Today, Goldberg, The Listener, The Lute, The Musical Times, Music & Letters, Notes and The Times Literary Supplement. I have written numerous notes for recordings on the Archive, Amon Ra, Arcana, Argo, Ars Musici, Astree, Chandos, Channel Classics, Erato, Globe, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, L’Oiseau Lyre, Oryx, Philips, Silva Screen, Sony, Vanguard and Virgin Classics labels.

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