I'm surprised no one has mentioned Liz Kenny's interesting article on the English lute song and continuo air. Particularly relevant to this thread is that she suggests, quite rightly in my view, that printed lute song tablatures ought not be regarded like modern urtext editions and that many lutenists, especially professional players, would have added/arranged the accompaniments to suite their individual tastes.
MH --- On Sun, 27/7/08, LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: More on lute songs > To: "lute-cs. dartmouth. edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Sunday, 27 July, 2008, 8:12 AM > 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 > >> > > > > -- > > __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
