Jessie Anne Owens was recently elected president of the American Musicological Society (membership 3000+), which is a indication of the quality of her scholarship, and of the respect she has earned from her colleagues. Her book, which has awarded the Deem Talyor Prize from ASCAP, also has information about sketches of lute music (drafts for a parody fantasia on Francesco and drafts for intabulations), etc. Sketches and drafts of music for lute are quite rare.
I think in her book is an old engraving of an organist playing from separate part books strew around him. And there is also the account of Mozart at the Thomas Church in Leipzig playnng J.B. Bach motets from the part books. I should probably point out that the lute sketches Jessie examines are probably the work of amateurs, not professionals. One was done, I suspect, by the Augsburg Patrician Hans Heinrich Herwarth or his lutenist when he and his family fled to Memmingen to escape the plague in Auygsburg. =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== ----- Original Message ----- From: "howard posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:50 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Palestrina's lute (was Musical Crimes etc) | On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote: | | > The Amazon site gives a lot of detail about | > Palestrina, and confirms that he used the lute while composing. Jessie | > Owens' book certainly looks a good read. | | I was mistaken in saying it was an Amazon site, BTW. It's Google | Book Search. | -- | | To get on or off this list see list information at | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html |
