Dear Ron,
The Nottingham University Music Department Library has some modern
editions and facsimiles of lute music, although the way they
catalogue books means that their books of lute music are not all in
the same place. There is even quite a bit of lute music in the
Nottingham Central Library in
Dear All,
My point about the Welde Lute Book is that some pages of the
original manuscript have been repaired with the old-fashioned method
of gauzing, that is covering flimsy paper with a thin sort of
material (gauze) to strengthen and protect it. The trouble is that
reading anything on a gauzed
Dear lute makers and all, I recently got back from a trip to the east =
coast where I was kindly given permission to draw a couple of lutes. =
One was the Andreas Berr in Boston , but more importantly the Andreas =
Jauck at Yale. Below I describe the Jauck and have a few observations. =
I'm wond
Dear Fellow Lutenists,
Does anyone have or know of a copy of Mark Lindley's "Lutes, Viols,
and Temperaments" for sale? Please reply privately.
Thanks,
David Dolata
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David Dolata, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Musicology
Director of Graduate Studies in Music
119 Music Building
Eastern Washin
Hi Daniel, et al
Point taken regarding digital media going out of date. I was not
suggesting relying on lute-tablature saved this way. Merely to print ones
own legible paper copy to perform from, with as much of the ornamentation
as can be gleaned from the original, even if it happens to be o
Very well said, Daniel.
There is also the problem of typographical errors which may exist in
Fronimo files, PDF's etc. which are available on the Internet. If you
know the piece, then you can tell where the typo's are and correct
them; but if you don't know the piece, something other than the
Ron:
Converting old prints and manuscripts to digital formats and media is
*not necessarily* the best solution, for a couple of reasons.
First, there is the question of "extraneous" marks and flyspecks that you
may ignore today when making your transcription, but next decade someone
may discover
