Lute in Britain A History of the Instrument and Its Music

"Matthew Spring succeeds in giving the lute an exalted position in British music history, without claiming too much for this strange and unwieldy instrument or its fragmented and mercurial music. His study...reveals no secrets or startling discoveries; rather it draws together...a wealth of recent scholarship....What I miss, however, are answers to the fundamental questions which the book raises."Spring, Matthew is the author of 'Lute in Britain A History of the Instrument and Its Music' with ISBN 9780198166207 and ISBN 0198166206.