Here you can download some treatises (or part of them), some old books (out of print) on early music and two of my research works. I will try to maintain this page up to date with new entries.
Please enjoy and ask for more if you are interested!
Treatises:
Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L’Abbé le Fils, Principes du Violon, Paris 1761
Michel Corrette, Méthode de violon dans le goût Français et Italien, Paris 1738
Robert Crome, The fiddle new Model’d or a useful introduction for the Violin, London 1735
Pierre Dupont, Principes de Violon par demandes et par reponse, Paris 1718
Bartolomeo Bismantova, Compendio Musicale, Ferrara 1677 (violino, ita/deu)
Francesco Saverio Geminiani, The Art of Playing on the Violin, London 1751
Books:
A.Beyschlag: Die Ornamentik der Musik, Leipzig 1908
A. Dolmetsch: The interpretation of the Music of the XVIIth AND XVIIIth Centuries, London 1915
W. Kolneder: Aufführungspraxis bei Georg Muffat, Baden-Baden 1990