Matthew Sping Academia

Published Articles
‘Dance in Anstey’s New Bath Guide
‘Herschel’s musical summer of ‘78
‘The Reverend Robert Creighton’s seven pieces for twelve-course lute in British Library Additional Manuscript 37074’, The Lute (2015)
‘Bath’s Grand Gala Concerts, a combination of pleasures ‘after the manner of Vauxhall’. The Bath History Journal, (2015).
‘Benjamin Milgrove, the musical ‘Toy man’, and the ‘Guittar’ in Bath 1757-1790 Early Music vol. xli no.2 2013, pp. 317-329.
‘Music Shops and the Music Trade in Georgian Bath’, Brio, vol. 50. 2013 no.1, pp. 3-16.
‘The Music and Musicians of Bath’s Proprietary Chapels, Chombec News, Issue 13 (2012), pp.9-12.
‘The Balcarres Lute Book, a modern edition and some new biographical information, Lute News, 97, April 2011, 20-21
‘Mudarra’s vihuela songs’ Lute News, 96, Oct 2010, 12-18
‘The Balcarres Lute Book’ Lute News 87, 0ct 2008, 7-14
`The musical aesthetics of an Elizabethan Oxford Academic’ International Conference of the Cyprus Musicological Society 1 (2004)
`Reconstructing the consort lessons of Richard Reade’, Lute News liv (June 2000), 6-14
`The English lute ` fantasia -style'; and the music of Cuthbert Hely', Chelys (1996-7), 65-77
`An interview with Carl Dolmetsch in celebration of Diana Poulton's 90th year' The Lute xxxiii (1994), 31-37
`The Balcarres Lute Manuscript, The Lute xxxii (1992), 2-45
`The Lady Margaret Wemyss Manuscript; The Lute xxvii (1987), 5-30
`A repertoire for the English Bagpipe, Melodies from Playford's DancingMaster, The Chanter I part 1 (1986), 20-35