The Spink book is depressing because he doesn't like the music. Open the book at random:
"The conclusion seems inescapable then, that Blow, as a song writer, fails at all levels ... he just has not got what it takes" (p. 251) "There is, however, little to say in favour of Francis Forcer, whose numerous songs are among the feeblest written by any composer of the period" (p.178) "[Lanier] shows incompetence, or, at least, misjudgement in his handling of words and a rather jejune taste" (p. 106) "Many of the contents of [Pilkington's] First Booke of Songs (1605) are rather turgid" (p.33) And so on. Miserable. Frankly, I would avoid Spink and spend the time on the music instead. P 2008/7/27 LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruno wrote: > > Thanks for the info! Is the book from Ian Spink still availlable? I only >> find used ones... >> > > I wouldn't know. I found mine 18 years ago, new, in 'De Slegte', the Dutch > bookshop that stocks what we call shop daughters: remains from normal shops > and publishers that are sold cheaply as the profit for the production of the > first print has been made. It's cheaper for the publishers to sell these > under normal price and to make room in their warehouses for new books than > to keep these in stock. But a decent library should have it for you. The > Musica Britannica can also be found in any decent library. These volumes are > rather expensive: something like 130 euros I think. > > David - finds his own cds as shop daughters occasionally ;-) > > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > > > > >> >> >>> There's a nice little booklet by Ian Spink on the repertoire you're >>> interested in. It's called 'English Song, Dowland to Purcell' (Batsford, >>> London 1974). And check out the MB series part XXXIII: English Songs >>> 1625-1660 (edited by the same Ian Spink) for a taste of what happenend >>> between the lute songs of Dowland and the continuo songs of Purcell. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> **************************** >>> David van Ooijen >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> www.davidvanooijen.nl >>> **************************** >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> > > -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.silvius.co.uk http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ www.myspace.com/sambuca999 www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty --
