Ed, see Chris' posting yesterday: Try
Spencer, Robert. The Burwell Lute Tutor. A facsimile edition, with an introductory study by Robert Spencer. Leeds, Boethius Press, 1975. Also of interest are Dart, Robert Thurston. La m�thode de luth de Miss Mary Burwell. In Le luth et sa musique. Ed. by Jean Jacquot. Paris, CNRS, 1958. 121-126. Dart, Robert Thurston. Miss Mary Burwell's instruction book for the lute. Galpin Society Journal: 11; 1958. Regards, Chris ed At 11:56 PM 10/22/2004 +0900, you wrote: > >In addition to the facsimile, check out the Galpin Society, as back in the > >50's or 60's they did a modern translation of it, typed, in an article. > >Is that by Thurston Dart? I've got a Xerox, but I don't know where it >came from. He uses piano fingerings in his transcriptions, i.e. the >thumb is 1, index is 2. It doesn't matter to us though because all >the tab is there. > >My favorite admonition in there is: "It is a disgrace for the lute to >play country dances, songs or corants of violins, as likewise to play >tricks with one's lute - to play behind the back, etc." > >I've got to stop doing that! :-) >-- >Ed Durbrow >Saitama, Japan >http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
