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Luca http://liuti.manassero.net -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:17:02 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Lute society 'closed' / Lute News / Balcarres facsimile / new website 1. LUTE SOCIETY âCLOSEDâ FOR A WEEK / NEXT LUTE NEWS I am taking a week off to work on a recording, so wonât be able to answer emails etc till next Friday. August Lute News [which was meant to be July Lute News] should be back from the printers in the week of the 16th, and so with you that week. 2 AT LAST! BALCARRES FACSIMILE â AND SPECIAL OFFER Boydell & Brewer and the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen are pleased to offer members of the Lute Society a special price on an important new publication. Copied out in Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, the Balcarres Lute Book is the largest and most important post-1640 British source of lute music. It contains 252 compositions, among them settings of native Scots airs and of English popular tunes and French baroque lute music by mid- and later seventeenth-century masters. It is here published for the first time in a pair of volumes comprising a black-and-white facsimile and a transcription, along with an extended introduction, notes on related musical sources, and a critical commentary on each individual piece. The Balcarres Lute Book, edited by Matthew Spring and published in August in a two-volume slipcased set, is normally priced at £95. However members may purchase copies direct from Boydell & Brewer Ltd at £71.25 plus £3 p&p (outside of the UK £6.50). To order, simply contact Boydell [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) , telephone +44 (0)1394 610600 or order via our secure website on_www.boydellandbrewer.com_ (http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/) . In all cases, please quote offer code 10192. This offer is open until 31st October 2010. 3. NEW WEBSITE CATALOGUING NEW LUTE MUSIC Modern (post 1815) and Contemporary Lute Music _http://contemporaryandmodernlutemusic.doomby.com/_ (http://contemporaryandmodernlutemusic.doomby.com/) Lynda Sayce and Susan King have created a website whose aim is to list all lute music for the western lute, written after 1815. The site gives the title, instruments & composer and publisher details. The site also lists records and CDs. Currently it lists 100 pieces. This is a very small beginning. The site will be updated constantly until the 17th August and from then on updates will be made once a month. We know there are still 1000's of modern pieces for lute that do not yet appear on the site. You can help by checking out the site and if you know of a piece or CD that isn't listed, fill in the Contact Form with the details and we will add it in the next update. Many thanks Susan King and Lynda Sayce Susan King 12 rue de l'Echiquier 75010 Paris 06 46 19 19 15 _http://www.susanjking.com_ (http://www.susanjking.com/) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
