Books by Ian Woodfield

Dr Woodfield brings iconographic evidence and an interesting approach to this study of the viol which will be of interest to musicologists, iconographers, organologists and viol players.

A groundbreaking new approach proposes answers to many of the opera's unresolved questions.

Until relatively modern times, musicians relied upon patrons to fund their music - social savoir-faire was as important as technical proficiency when attracting wealth. This volume provides a reassessment of Salomon's uneven career as a violinist in London during the 1780s.