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The Viol Rules – a notebook by Alison Crum, which will be available at the workshop on Saturday 20th February, and also at the Rose Consort of Viols concert on Friday 19th February.

Alison's new book on playing the viol is The Viol Rules ... it was just published in November 2009 and is available from Corda Music, who have published all her books of music such as First Solos, Intermediate Solos, and the Pièces de Résistance. It is in a small 6 by 8 inches ‘notebook’ format, with a wire binding which opens flat, and has 148 pages in full colour. The RRP in the UK is £16, approx $25, plus shipping.

 
It is 20 years since her first book Play the Viol was published by Oxford University Press, and that has been reprinted five times since then. One might call this new book a 'sequel' to the first one - very different in style, written more informally perhaps, but going much deeper into many details of viol technique in a way which perhaps no one else has yet committed to the printed page.

Alison's ideas and suggestions are the result of many years of teaching experience combined with details from the most important viol treatises of the 16th to 18th centuries, quotations from which begin each section of the book. Every section ends with a ‘little rule’ of her own, which sums up some of the key facts.

More details about the contents of the book can be found on the Corda Music website:  www.cordamusic.co.uk/alisoncrum.html

You can also see an image of the cover on the new ‘Viol Rules’ page of Alison's own website: www.alisoncrum.co.uk  There is not much else there yet, but she is intending to use this page to add new ideas and comments, and maybe eventually photos and video links.

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