Hello! Joachim Lüdtke and me wrote the book "The Lute in Europe 2" and after some mails from this list with questions we like to give some informations - specially for the owner of the first book, too.
The first 120 page book "The Lute in Europe. A History to Delight" was more or less focussed on lutes. The new book "The Lute in Europe 2" gives an overview on lutes, guitars, mandolins and citterns, has 447 pages and a poster. The concept is close to the first book: - We have made a choice of around 150 photos (there were "only" 31 in the 1st edition) nearly completely new. Only some tablature examples (CH-Bu F IX 56, F IX 70, Paladin 1560, Milan 1536) and the chitarra battente from Basel are the same pictures (besides of the small thumbs for the overview of lute types, the systematic pictures with bridges and roses and the pictures of the open Martin Hoffmann as an example for the construction and inversion from a 11c. to a 13c. baroque lute with bass rider). - The pictures and captures are a unity, chronologically arranged, and you can first only enjoy the pictures and read the captures - so you will have a good entry to the topics. - The main text is written as simple as possible, but the content is (we hope) a good summary of the state of the art, but with some own new additions (f.ex. a new hypothesis on the dissemination of the lute in Europe or the history of the plucked instruments between the decline of the lute and the rise of the 6 string guitar). - New in the main text is the historical section with an overview from 1200 until 2010. The systematic section is corrected and enlarged - f.ex. with a chapter "Music and proportion" including the temperature questions. So only parts of the old text are reused. AND: The translation is completely new - and many reactions say that this time the language is MUCH better than in the first book. We learned ;-) and a big thankyou to David van Edwards! - Beside of the pictures and the main text there is a third level: We made more than 440 notes who should give a guide to the specialized literature - that's the really hard stuff for professionals. - The poster gives a visualization of the chronological appearance and use of the lutes and mandolins on one side, of the guitars and citterns on the other page - with over 900 flags of sources. These flags include the today country where the source appeared, the type (musical source printed / as a manuscript, iconographical source, text source) and a short reference. We will give the complete list of these short references with the "normal" bibliographical notes on the homepage www.accordsnouveaux.ch very soon - and also the places index and other indexes. So the second book - for this reason the "2" in the title - is a very enlarged version with nearly all new pictures and mainly new text - and the pictures from the first book and these of the second book give together a wonderful collection of very high quality pictures of lutes, guitars, mandolins and citterns. A good first impression gives the website http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/en/BookLt/BookLt.html ABOUT DELIVERY: We like to make this book as cheap as possible because not all lute players or interested people have a lot of money. So the transport should also be as cheap as possible. Because of the weight of 1.4 kg each book we are working on delivery stations not only in Europe (see the homepage), but also in the USA, Australia and Japan. Of course you can order directly. We always will choose the cheapest solution for the delivery to you. You can also have a look on the homepage - we publish all deliveries when they are organized. For the USA we can give the following address (he will receive the books very soon): Harp Guitar Music P.O. Box 573155 Tarzana, CA 91357 gr...@harpguitarmusic.com For Australia we are just preparing the solution. For Japan we are still looking for a good solution. If somebody can help, please contact us! So: Enjoy the book and your instrument(s)! Andreas Schlegel -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
