Lira Da Braccio

STERLING SCOTT JONES resides in Munich, where he was a founding member of the Studio der frühen Musik. He now performs on early bowed string instruments with various groups.

"This is an essential book for those interested in renaissance instrumentation as well as for potential players." Early Music Review "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 practice... 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 "Sterling Scott Jones' 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

• Preface1. A Short History of the Lira da Braccio2. Some Early Citations3. Extant Instruments4. The Lira da Braccio in Works of Art5. Chords and Fingering Charts6. Selected RepertoireMarco Cara, S'io sedo a l'ombra amorJacob Arcadelt, O felici occhi mieiAnnonymous, Con pianto e con doloreMarco Cara, Io non compro piu speranzaAlfonso della Viola, Music tol SacrificioAnonymous, Romanesca, Pasamezo de lira (fragment)Anonymous, Aime sospiriBiagio Marini, CapriccioAppendixPesaro Manuscript and TranscriptionAnonymous, Ayme sospiri (Excorial Manuscript)Biagio Marini, Capriccio per Sonare il Violino con tre corde a modo diLira Fingering Chart for Alto TuningList of Instrument MakersBibliography