The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music

Editors

Colin Lawson, Royal College of Music, London
Colin Lawson is Director of the Royal College of Music, London. He is a world-renowned period clarinettist and has played principal in most of Britain's leading period orchestras, with which he has recorded and toured worldwide. He has published extensively and is co-editor, with Robin Stowell, of a series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music as well as of The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (Cambridge, 2012).

Robin Stowell, Cardiff University
Robin Stowell is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University. As a violinist he has performed, broadcast and recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and other period ensembles. He is the author of Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1985) and his other major publications include The Early Violin and Viola (Cambridge, 2001) and three Cambridge Companions – to the violin (1992), cello (1999) and string quartet (2003).

Contributors

Colin Lawson, Robin Stowell, Simon Baines, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Jon Banks, Paul Banks, Jeremy Barlow, Dietrich Bartel, Robert Beale, Alexander Evan Bonus, José Antonio Bowen, Edward Breen, David Breitman, Bojan Bujić, Geoffrey Burgess, Burnham, John Butt, Murray Campbell, Stewart Carter, Tim Carter, David F. Chapman, Terence Charlston, Stuart Cheney, Nicholas Clapton, Suzanne Cole, Jeffrey Dean, Bruce Dickey, Elizabeth Dobbin, Ross Duffin, Cliff Eisen, Paul Ellison, Don Fader, David Fallows, Nicholas Gebhardt, Malcolm Gillies, Geoffrey Govier, John Haines, Kenneth Hamilton, Roger Heaton, Trevor Herbert, Rebecca Herissone, Claire Holden, Peter Horton, Patricia Howard, Roy Howat, John Humphries, John Irving, Paul Israel, David Wyn Jones, Richard D P Jones, Simon Jones, Lindsay Kemp, George Kennaway, Richard Langham Smith, Andrew Lawrence-King, Colin Lawson, David Ledbetter, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Erik Levi, Robert D. Levin, Jakob Lindberg, Peter Linnitt, Natasha Loges, Timothy J. McGee, Simon McVeigh, Stefano Mengozzi, Jeremy Montagu, Michael Musgrave, Herbert Myers, Cormac Newark, Michael O'Dea, Michael Oliva, Kate van Orden, Max Paddison, Ingrid E. Pearson, Julian Perkins, David Ponsford, Anthony Pryer, Owen Rees, Lucy Robinson, Eleonora Rocconi, Stephen Rose, Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, Antonio Rostagno, David Rowland, Julian Rushton, Susan Rutherford, Jamie Savan, Thomas Schmidt, Giselher Schubert, Brian Siemers, Nigel Simeone, Uri Smilansky, Ashley Solomon, Robin Stowell, Jeremy Summerly, Matthias Thiemel, David Tunley, Melvin P. Unger, Wouter Verschuren, Jonathan Wainwright, John Wallace, William Weber, James Westbrook, Richard Widdess, Aaron Williamon, Magnus Williamson, David K. Wilson, Nick Wilson, Richard Wistreich, Ian Wood, Alison Wray, David C. H. Wright, Steven Zohn

Awards

• Winner, 2019 C.B. Oldman Prize, IAML (UK & Ireland)