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About the Author
CHRISTOPHER PAGE is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and from October 2014 until May 2018 was Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (founded 1597). An Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. PAUL SPARKS is a British guitarist, mandolinist, and author of three books for Oxford University Press: The Early Mandolin (1989, with James Tyler), The Classical Mandolin (1995), and The Guitar and its Music (2002, with Tyler). He has also published two articles in Early Music: 'Clara Ross, Mabel Downing and Ladies' Guitar and Mandolin Bands in late Victorian Britain' (2013), and 'The Mandolin in Britain, 1750-1800' (2018). He has also been a writer and/or producer for many BBC television music documentaries. JAMES WESTBROOK is a British-based organologist whose particular interest is in guitar construction. He is the author of several illustrated books on history of the acoustic guitar. He is currently a member of the Research staff at the University of Cambridge Music Faculty, and he holds a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge. CHRISTOPHER PAGE is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and from October 2014 until May 2018 was Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (founded 1597). An Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. PAUL SPARKS is a British guitarist, mandolinist, and author of three books for Oxford University Press: The Early Mandolin (1989, with James Tyler), The Classical Mandolin (1995), and The Guitar and its Music (2002, with Tyler). He has also published two articles in Early Music: 'Clara Ross, Mabel Downing and Ladies' Guitar and Mandolin Bands in late Victorian Britain' (2013), and 'The Mandolin in Britain, 1750-1800' (2018). He has also been a writer and/or producer for many BBC television music documentaries. JAMES WESTBROOK is a British-based organologist whose particular interest is in guitar construction. He is the author of several illustrated books on history of the acoustic guitar. He is currently a member of the Research staff at the University of Cambridge Music Faculty, and he holds a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Book Information
ISBN 9781837650330
Author Christopher Page
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g