Doug Smith asked me to post this response to Ed Dubrow's request for a
Volume 2 to the Lute History book.
Nancy
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ed, but it ain't gonna happen. There
are too many other projects on my desk that for me are more engaging
right now. Not by chance did I step down from the JLSA (Journal of the
Lute Society of America) editorship.
A History of the Lute in the Baroque Era might be a good dissertation
topic for an analytically-minded PhD student of musicology, though it's
broader than usual. The structural model exists. It's an almost
guaranteed publication by a major press (Oxford or other univ. press)
with little or no alteration right out of the chute if done right,
unlike most PhD theses. I'd happily serve as an informal adviser, but
other long-standing research and composition projects have my attention
at this point.
Doug Smith
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