On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Martin Shepherd wrote: > Also one has to ask whether Francesco da Milano, brilliant though he must > have been, was actually able to invent extended strict canons without > recourse to mensural notation. Some of his pieces are so intricately worked > that the idea that he composed them "on the lute" seems ridiculous.
Not so ridiculous once we know that Palestrina composed on the lute. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
