Hey David,

I am unaware of any "new" editions of the BURwell book, and including 
one would be very nice, indeed.

I have both the Boethius facsimile, along with the Galpin Society 
article.  i refer to it very often, but I must admit that the old 
Galpin article is more useful.

ed





At 09:15 AM 8/8/2012, David van Ooijen wrote:
>Dear Collected Wisdom
>
>I _am_ the library, as a friend of mine likes to put it when he's
>looking for some lute piece, but something is missing my library: a
>modern edition of The Burwell Lute Tutor (annotated, footnotes,
>concordances, indexed, you name it: the works). Boethius Press/Bob
>Spencer did a wonderful job by publishing the facsimile in 1974. Sadly
>out of print but with some luck still to be found second hand. And
>there's Thurston Dart's article/transcription into modernised English
>of much-but-not-all in The Galpin Society Journal of 1958 (yes,
>nineteen fifty eight). It's great, it's wonderful, I love it, couldn't
>live without it but ... has there not been a musicologists who made a
>'new' edition of the Burwell? I'm not saying it has to be on-line and
>for free, although that would be an option ...
>
>David
>
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