Arthur Ness wrote: > Perhaps it is a bit too early to call for a revised edition of Doug's lute > history. But with 58 pieces in the Paston lute books, and all the other > pieces that Rainer and I listed, quite a bit more than a half dozen works by > Byrd have come down to us in versions for lute. As I mentioned in my initial > posting, some are arrangements (by name composers such has Cutting and > Holborne). And who is to say whether the corantos, pavans and the famous > volta, were not first composed as lute pieces, and then keyboardized. As Byrd > did with works by Dowland, John Johnson and others. And these works deserve > our attention. The Byrd version of Johnson Delight Pavan and Galliard is the > earliest one. And it shows that the opening four notes in later versions are > not the melody, but a written out ornament. Another reason to favor the > Spencer/Robinson/Berger policy of including all relevant versions of a piece > in a collected edition. >
By the way, has anybody noticed that there is a version for lute of a piece by Bull (for keyboard - of course). Rainer adS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
