1. Alan J. Fletcher, Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. D.S. Brewer, 2001 p. 147 / 493
2. www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/hornint.htm
3. omacl.org/Troilus/troilus2.html
4. Paulus Paulirinus, liber viginti artium, http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tml/15th/PAUTRA_TEXT.html
5. Sally Harper, Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales, North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 4, 1 (Winter 2004) p.34 (read it online).
7. www.philological.bham.ac.uk/scothist/
8. Vincentio Galilei, Dialogo della Musica Antica et della Moderna, 1581 p. 143. Available online via Gallica.bnf.fr
9. John H. Pierse ‘Nicholas Dall Pierse of Co. Kerry, Harper’ Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society No. 6, 1973, p. 51
12. The Whores Rhetorick, 1683, reprinted Edinburgh 1836, p.12. Google books edition.
13. Gratianus Lucius, ed. & transl. Matthew Kelly, Cambrensis Eversus, Dublin 1848. Vol I p. 318-321.
14. Thomas Mace, Musick's Monument, 1676, p.73, cited in Paul O'Dette, 'Some Observations about the Tone of Early Lutenists', in Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht 1986, STIMU, Utrecht, 1988, p. 91
15. Weiss, cited in Paul O'Dette, 'Some Observations about the Tone of Early Lutenists', in Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht 1986, STIMU, Utrecht, 1988, p. 91. O'Dette gives as his reference D.A. Smith, 'Baron and Weiss Contra Maltheson: In Defense of the Lute', in JLSA 6, 1973, p.61. However I have not been able to read this article in JLSA and I have not been able to find the source of the 'Weiss' quote.
16. John Gunn, An Historical Enquiry respecting the Performance on the Harp in the Highlands, &c, 1807, p.19
17. Edward Bunting, The Ancient Music of Ireland, 1840, p. 73
18. web.archive.org/web/20050305200248/www.harpfestival.co.uk/classes.htm
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