howard posner
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:37:28 -0700
On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: > I have a vague memory of hearing > that Palestrina had a lute handy when composing. If you google "palestrina lute mass" into google (without the quotes) you should pull up a page of Jessie Ann Owens' "The composer at work" from Amazon that quotes letters about Palestrina using the lute to compose. Oor try this: http://books.google.com/books? id=9Xc_EXNgf00C&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=palestrina+lute +mass&source=web&ots=cAz_AAI-am&sig=PslpZZMII4v9Qh51ZArJ- t_YI60&hl=en#PPA294,M1 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html