ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection at Burghley House, Stamford Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2002 ISBN: 0 7546 0460 8 www.ashgate.com 'The introduction to the book is full of references to the music, and the personalities of the late eighteenth century and makes delightful general reading as well as forming a rich background to the main part of the book - the catalogue itself... The catalogue of music is extensive, well set out, and a wonderful research tool... The only real way to get a flavour of its breadth of material is to purchase the book for yourself - something which I would highly recommend if your interests lie in late-eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century music.' (The Galpin Society Journal) ‘A scholarly work such as this is obviously an essential tool for serious study and an enormous aid to research. Yet there is also much here of great interest for the general reader … (The Consort) ‘ … Gerald Gifford has produced a careful and thorough catalogue … This is a handsome volume. Apart from revealing the wealth of an inaccessible collection of music, it will be useful for the detailed bibliographical information on a cross-section of 18th-century music … (Early Music Review)

FACSIMILE EDITIONS

John Stanley: Six Concertos for the Organ, Harpsichord or Fortepiano (Op X) A facsimile of the original edition (London 1775), with an introduction by Gerald Gifford Oxford University Press, London 1986 ‘The edition shows modern scholarship at its most expert and illuminating, while the music itself deserves to become well known through frequent performance’. (Organists’ Review) ‘The edition of the keyboard part reproduces the original 1775 edition with the addition of bar numbers. These enable easy access to the thorough annotations provided by the editor, Gerald Gifford. … The best way to deal with matters of performance practice [is] to comment on particular passages in the critical notes … I was very glad to see that Gifford has set a precedent by doing just that. … This is enjoyable music, both to play and to listen to, so its publication, particularly in this form, is most welcome’. (Early Music News) To purchase, please visit sales@allegro.co.uk

John Loeillet: Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet
A facsimile of the original edition (London 1723), with an introduction by Gerald Gifford
Oxford University Press, London 1986

‘Mr Gifford has let his experience as a performer guide his hand as editor, and therefore his critical notes are helpful. Many interesting suggestions are made’. (Harpsichord & Fortepiano)

‘OUP’s reproduction of John Loeillet’s Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet is preferable to the previous edition, Monumenta Musicae Belgicae I. The music is satisfying to play [and] Gerald Gifford is the careful editor’. (Early Music News)

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John Playford: ‘Musick’s Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-Way’
A facsimile reprint of the second edition (London 1682), with an introduction by Gerald Gifford
Ruxbury Publications Ltd., Mytholmroyd 2002
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‘This new edition is to be commended for its informative content and practical design for use in performance. Those who wish to find out more about lyra viol music will be well served by Gerald Gifford’s excellent new introduction, which includes many useful references for further research’. (The Consort)

Scarlatti’s Chefs-d’oeuvre for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte; Selected from an Elegant collection of Manuscripts, in the Possession of Muzio Clementi.
A facsimile of the original edition [London c. 1791] with an introduction and table of concordances by Gerald Gifford
Ruxbury Publications Ltd., Mytholmroyd 2003
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‘The value of an edition such as this to scholars and students of performance practice is incalculable. This is particularly so in that it adds considerable weight to the move away from the polarisation between what has often been seen as correct and incorrect texts, and impels us towards a contextual view of such editions as reflections of the performance practices of their time’. (The Consort)

The Compleat Flute-Master or The whole Art of playing on ye Rechorder
London, Walsh and Hare 1695
A facsimile of the original edition, with an introduction by Gerald Gifford, and further contributions by Jeanne Dolmetsch and Marianne Metzger
Ruxbury Publications, Mytholmroyd 2004
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‘Thanks must go to all involved in the publication of this text that is so important both as a teaching tool and an aid to historically informed performance practice’. (The Consort)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND JOURNALS INCLUDE:

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Macmillan, London 1980, and the Revised Edition, 2000

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Bärenreiter, Kassel 1994

The Dictionary of Composers
Macmillan, London 1981

Musical Times; Organists’ Review; British Institute of Organ Studies Journal; The Organ; The Consort; Harpsichord & Fortepiano amongst other professional journals.

Most of these are accessible online via the source publication title as indicated above. Articles include many associated with the repertoire of the organ and harpsichord in eighteenth-century England, and particularly with holdings in the three important private library collections of music, of which I am Honorary Keeper. (See Career Profile page).

SOME SPECIMEN ARTICLES:

‘Some rare sources of Georgian Harpsichord music in the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)’
Harpsichord & Fortepiano Vol. 9 No. 2 (Summer 2001) 20-25]

‘The Keyboard Concerto in Eighteenth-Century England’
Organists’ Review Vol lxxxix No 352 (2003) 364-366, 372-374;
Vol xc No 353 (2004) 61-67; Vol xc No 354 (2004) 170-171

Performance practice issues are often discussed in my work, and not only as related to eighteenth-century music; see for example:

‘The Mulliner Book revisited – some musical perspectives and performance considerations’
The Consort Vol. 58 (Summer 2002) 13-27

And various projects that I have undertaken in advising on the conservation and preservation of historic keyboard instruments, and as consultant for the construction of new ones, are also described:

‘The Robinson College Organ’
The Musical Times Vol. cxxii No. 1659 (May 1981) 331-333

The Frobenius Organ, 1980
Robinson College Chapel, Cambridge
www.robinson.cam.ac.uk