On Nov 13, 2007 2:01 PM, Daniel Winheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I assume the Morley can be found reprinted and for sale at any of the > usual sources;
Actually, the 1771 edition of the original was available for download, and I cannot find it any longer online. I have two versions, same file, different names, telling me (at least) that I either downloaded them at different times or from different sites. Now I cannot find it as a file online at all! Perhaps this is related to the IMSLP being suppressed. I did find three things of note, probably none of which are new to the denizens of this list, but they may be of assistance to someone pursuing the music theory-in-the-Renaissance subject: An extract from the 1771 edition (14 pages from the first part) is at MIT in the OpenCourseWare site at http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Music-and-Theater-Arts/21M-220Spring-2007/C434605E-9F42-40FB-A9A8-7CF2B24BFBB4/0/morley_plaine.pdf A scan of the entire 1771 edition is available at http://digital.library.unt.edu/data/music/vrbr/meta-dc-86.tkl in one of those horrible one-page-at-a-time forms. And Greg Lindahl has the 1608 edition scanned and available one-page-at-a-time at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/morley/1608/ which has it all over the edition at Digital.Library.Unt.Edu above in that it provides images which can be downloaded and kept, rather than merely gazed at on screen. It is a bit harder to get to a specific page, though you can if you edit the URL's appropriately. Fortunately, Greg has left URL's available to be seen and edited. I don't think it can be overemphasized how important it is to research and learning for volumes like these to be available for download (preferrably in a standard format which allows printing of pages as well as enlarging and reducing, easy page-to-page navigation) which to me, at this point in life, means PDF. (Deja Vu may be smaller, but navigating the pages on a notebook screen is _nasty_.) Towards this end, I will probably be collecting the pages from Greg's site and compiling them into a PDF, which I'll offer back to him to make available on the site. I also will consider sticking the one I have on my hosted web site for other people to get: I am not afraid of a copyright violation on a book that is over 200 years old. This is a 1771 edition, though, and all the original notation has been replaced with late-18th century notation. (This could be a benefit, but it does lose some of the feel of the original notation.) ray To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
