Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

This essay is one outcome of my researches into the medieval lute within Scotland, for which I was granted study leave by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the ancient and contemporary oud practices in Morocco and Turkey made possible by a Churchill Travelling Fellowship. Thanks go to both institutions. Other related outcomes include: three commissions of new compositions (financed by the SAC and the Hope Scott Trust), one for oud (Edward McGuire ~ The Oud Player of Rosslyn), the others for 12-course lute (John Maxwell Geddes ~ The Rosslyn Oud, and John Purser ~ The Old Composer Remembers); my own composition, ‘The Healing’; and arrangements for medieval lute of some of the music mentioned inthis text, first performed at Boarhills in Fife, 1st February, 2002

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