(b Leeds, 4 May 1907; d Firle, Sussex, 20 Jan 1990). English musicologist. He studied the viol, the violin and interpretation with Arnold Dolmetsch. He divided his career between performance and scholarship at universities in the USA.
Among his writings on opera is a provocative Jungian interpretation of Wagner's Ring (1963). He wrote The Instruments of Music (1949), but a major contribution is his The Interpretation of Early Music (1963), which has become an indispensable reference work with its many quotations from treatises, its valuable insights into problems of performing practice and its commonsense, musicianly attitude towards their solution.
