Volume 1, August 2004
A Critical Review

by Shanon P. Zusman

Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century. By Stephen Bonta. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. [xii, 338 pp. ISBN 0-86078-878-4 $99.95 (cloth).]

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Scholarly context
3. The term Violone and the early history of the bass violin
4. The term Violone and the early history of the G violone
5. Principal objections to Bonta's conclusions
6. Conclusion