University Micorfilms International (UMI) is now called Pro-Quest, but they retain Dissertation Abstracts and the UMI initials. I tried my best to find Kevin's dissertation using DA, and it seems not to be there. It could be that since it is published, the dissertation version has been withdrawn.
Prices are about $45 for paperbound print of a dissertation (if available). Available dissertations can also be consulted on-line and downloaded for free if you have library access to Dissertation Abstracts!! A good place to start a search is with Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/ It provides the DA order number, for example. ==ajn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Arthur Ness'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Roman Turovsky'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Lute Net'" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:41 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] "cello" - Italian > If not, you should be able to get it from University > Microfilms (or whatever > their current name is). They maintain copies of pretty > much every > dissertation that is published in the US (and quite a > few outside the US, I > believe). No idea what they charge. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur Ness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:55 AM > To: Roman Turovsky > Cc: Lute Net > Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] "cello" - Italian > > Kevin Mason's dissertation on the chitaronne (1983) > was > subsequently published Aberystwyth: Boethius Press, > 1989. ISBN 0 86314 154 4 (and paperback 153 6). It > may > still be in print. Now Severinus Press? > > What has happened to Kevin? He seems to have > disappeared. > > > ==ajn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, > Roman Turovsky wrote: >> >>> > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Roman Turovsky wrote: > <<snip>> >> Interesting! My reference is the PhD dissertation on >> Kevin Mason >> (The Chitarrone and ts Repertoire in Early >> seventeeth-Century Italy, >> Sant Luis, Missouri, May 1983). >> [page 15-16:] >> > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >