G. Crona wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerzy Zak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Realy, highly recommended book, in many respects. I only cannot
understand why from a list of topics, ranging from the earliest lute
manuscripts to the 19th C. classical guitar, the German lute,
including Weiss, his predecessors and the 18th C. followers was
entirely untouched. A very puzling question to me, but perhaps
symptomatic of that selective tendency.
J
There is of course always the problem with size. You can't cover
everything. This has been the criticizm to all of the recent lute
publications. "History of the lute" for not including the Baroque.
"Lute in England" for not including Scotland. They probably felt the
German Lute was too broad a subject, and deserved its own in-depth work.
G.
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I thought there was some mention of the lute in Scotland in Matthew
Spring's book! You have to bear in mind that the book arose out of a
dissertation and was therefore circumscribed by the academic hierachy
Charles
