Acknowledgements

I would like to thank William Vann for allowing me to use his beautiful harpsichord in the recordings produced by this project.

Thanks go to Pawel Siwczak for loaning me his Spinet for the duration of this project. It was an invaluable source of inspiration.

I would like to thank my tutors: Daniel-Ben Pienaar, Peter Sheppard Skærved, and the rest of the MMus academic teachers for their advice and the stimulating discussions which helped to formulate and develop this project.

A particular thanks to my proofreaders, Doris Nikolić, Nicholas Tall, and Julie Watkins-Ryan.

Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends for their constant and ongoing support.