Hi Goran, all, Since you ask: I have been trying to prepare a project to publish the Cherbury lute book in DVD format for a while now with mixed success. On the plus side, the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge - which hold the MS - is very encouraging. They not only agreed to have the book digitized, but they also let me pick the people who would do the photography. This is very important since the quality of the reproductions I got from the Folger was (very) poor. On the plus side also, I got hold of some transcriptions of the unica in the book made by Richard Dixon, and those have been transribed into Django format by Richard Civiol. I also got a printed copy from the microfilm as a preparation. On the downside, I was not able to get the support I was hoping for from lute societies - and I suspect will not be able to get that from lutenists in general. Apparently, people are still waiting for the book facsimile. That publication has been in the works for a number of years now, and passed from editor's hand to editor's hand, all the way to Pierre-Francois Goy, who assured me that his new-born baby was taking precedence over the publication (understandly so). I don't think the wait is over yet. Even then: The DVD format offers some quite tantalizing advantages: for one thing, it can hold both digital copies and audio files. For another, it packs much more data and so allows for very high quality digital pictures that can prove invaluable for preservation purposes. Much, much better than a black and white copy in the case of a hand-written document. Given the size and complexity of that project, the many technical challenges as well as the research involved, and let us not forget the financing, this is not something that I can put together alone. Obviously. Yet, Herbert deserves nothing less than the full package: high quality color facsimile, complete recording (O'Dette's CD is out of print I think) of all pieces, commentary and analysis, performance transcriptions, and maybe even transcriptions in regular notation. And maybe a reproduction of Walpole's edition of his life. All that in one little shiny disk. I think the old soldier, diplomat, ladies' man and philosopher would like that. Perhaps more on this later - Alain
At 05:52 AM 5/5/04, G.R. Crona wrote: >Dear List, > >while fully aware, that new editions of lute music take time, are nowadays >rare and far in between, I would still like to make a small inventory of >works that I know of are in the making, and would much appreciate if any of >you have more info about the current state of progress concerning these: > >1. Mus Ms 40032, ed. Miles Dempster / John Griffiths. > >2. "The Lute Music of Fabrizio Dentice and his Neapolitan Circle", ed. Dinko >Fabris / John Griffiths (AR-editions) > >3. Mus. Ms. 266, (Herwarth) Marco Fascicle, ed. Arthur Ness > >4. Castelfranco Veneto MS, ed. Franco Rossi > >Any others I don't know about? > >Expectantly > >Göran
