Robert A. Green is Professor Emeritus of Music at Northern Illinois University and has performed the baroque repertory for hurdy-gurdy throughout the United States, France, and Israel. He has made two recordings of eighteenth-century French music for hurdy-gurdy for the Focus label. Since 1995 he has taught a workshop devoted to this music.

Introduction to the Second Edition

Preface to the Original Edition

1. Historical Background

2. The Music

3. Musical Interpretation and Performance

4. The Repertory

5. The Vielle in the Literature of Seventeenth- and Eigteenth-Century France

Appendix: Translation of the Avertissements in Works by Jean-Baptiste Dupuits

Bibliography

Index