Many would today find Dolmetsch a bit too dogmatic, but it's interesting reading to discover thought at the beginning of the early music movement. The second volume with musical examples was offer several months ago.
Publication Name: The interpretation of the music of the XVII and XVIII centuries revealed by contemporary evidence URL: [1]https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView. action?institutionalItemId!849&versionNumber=1 Author:Dolmetsch, Arnold (1858 - 1940) -- References 1. mhtml:{166DD468-AEFE-46B7-9F53-8D53229DFAC8}mid://00002119/!x-usc:https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId!849&versionNumber=1 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html