Critical Monographs
Monographs documenting historical temperament, organology, and performance acoustics drawn from ongoing ensemble residencies.
Acoustic Archeology
Historical Organology
Tuning Practice
Stone naves and consort decay
Weight and balance in early bows
Quarter-comma meantone purity
Measurements of low-frequency reverberation curves across three Norman chapels, charting how sustained gut string overtones coalesce without amplification.
Comparative analysis of seventeenth-century snakewood models, examining the frog's pivot geometry and its direct consequence on consort attack articulation.
Practical intonation adjustments for six-part viol consorts negotiating sharp thirds, uncorrupted open fifths, and shifting modal pitch centers.
Editorial Principle
We read unedited source editions not out of archival obedience, but to find where polyphonic phrasing naturally breathes.
Curatorial Preface, Marsden Research Register
Archive dispatches by post
Occasional printed program monographs and release folios distributed to research libraries and festival curators.