[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Fundamenta der Lauten-Musique

[howard posner]

After I quoted parts of my review of "Fundamenta der Lauten-Musique  
und Zugleich der Composition" someone asked if the shortcomings of  
the English fascicle were such that I'd recommend against buying it.

The answer is a qualified no.  It's a valuable book, offered for a  
mere 15 Euros, and anyone who wants to play continuo in d minor  
should have it.  And as long as Mathias was being, as he put it,  
"shameless," he might have offered a few words about how to order it  
from the Deutsche Lautengesellschaft.  I just took a quick look at  
its web site, and it wasn't obvious.

The cross-referencing glitches and the occasional translation  
awkwardness are annoyances, but will not prevent a native English  
speaker from figuring out what's going on.  But for someone whose  
English skills are not good, it may be another story.  So I wouldn't  
recommend Fundamenta for George W. Bush.



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