Ian Harwood (29 August 1931 – 28 July 2011) was a lutenist, musical instrument maker and teacher. [1]
Early life
Harwood was born in Petersfield, Hampshire and attended The Pilgrims' School while a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. [1]
Career
As a conscientious objector he completed his National Service operating a synchrotron at Addenbrooke's Hospital, as the machine broke down frequently he used his spare time in the workshop to construct his first lute. [1] In 1956 he co-founded the lute society, [2] and then became an alto lay clerk in the Choir of New College, Oxford where he began a career playing and making lutes near Oxford.
In 1960 he took up a position as a lay clerk at Ely Cathedral, where he built lutes for ten years. [1] In 1964 he received the Tovey Prize for research into the sources of English lute music. [2] He performed and recorded lute music with consorts such as the Campian Consort which he founded in 1967. [2]
Harwood's research identified Mathew Holmes as the author of a collection of Elizabethan lute books, described as being more important than the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. [3]
Harwood was elected president of the Lute Society in 1999 and appointed MBE in 2008. [2]
Publications
- Harwood, Ian, "The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts", Lute Society Journal vol. 5 pp. 32–48 (1963).
- Harwood, Ian, "The Origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts: A Postscript", Lute Society Journal vol. 6 p. 29 (1964).
- Harwood, Ian; Prynne, Michael (1975). A brief history of the lute. Richmond: Lute Society. ISBN 978-0-905655-00-0. OCLC 2965786.
- Harwood, Ian, "A Lecture in Musick, with the Practice thereof by Instrument in the Common Schooles, Mathew Holmes and Music at Oxford University c.1588-1627", Lute Society Journal vol. 45 pp. 1–70 (2005)
- Harwood, Ian, John H. Robinson and Stewart McCoy (eds), The Mathew Holmes Manuscripts I: Cambridge University Library MS Dd.2.11 (Albury: Lute Society, 2010).
- Harwood, Ian (2012). Sweet Broken Music: the Elizabethan and Jacobean Consort Lesson. Ashgate Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9780754600923.
References
- ^ a b c d Abbott, Thea (7 September 2011). "Ian Harwood obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Ian Harwood". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Spring, Matthew (2001). The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music. Oxford University Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780195188387.
- Abbott, Thea. "Obituaries: Ian Harwood (1931-2011) Musicologist and Instrument Maker - ProQuest". The Galpin Society Journal. 65 (Mar 2012): 227–228.
- "Ian Harwood". The Times. 9 September 2011. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
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