Generally the university owns the rights to a theses, so it wouldn't be withdrawn. It just may not be in the database.
If you know the name of the institution he did his work at, they will have a copy in their library and information on how to get a copy. Neill Arthur Ness wrote: > 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 dissertation version has been withdrawn.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 >> >> >> >> > > > > --
