These guidelines are aimed at string players in the early music scene and focus on orchestral technique and codes of practise. This book gives extensive support and information to student string players starting out in the world of freelance baroque orchestras. It could, of course, be of interest to other orchestral performers.

Rachel Harris, member of the Brook Street Band and director of Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg has collated her many years of experience and observation in this set of guidelines.