English Lute manuscripts and scribes 1530-1630
An examination of the place of the lute in 16th- and 17th-century English Society through a study of the English Lute Manuscripts of the so-called 'Golden Age', including a detailed catalogue of the sources.
ReadMe and Table of contents
List of Addenda and Corrigenda notified since the dissertaion was written
Glossaries
Introduction
1 - The Lute
2 - The English Lute Repertory
3 -Manuscripts: types, characteristics and compilation
4 - Lute scribes and handwriting
5 - Dating lute manuscripts i: material evidence
6 - Dating lute manuscripts ii: implied evidence
7 - Case studies: large file, given in two parts: part 1 | part 2
8 - The Signifying Serpent
Scanned images of paintings discussed in this chapter
Bibliography
List of tables and examples
APPENDICES
1 - Inventories of English sources
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
2 - Inventories of Foreign sources
Part 1
Part 2
3 -Index of composers
4 - Index of music titles
5 - Dateable elements in titles of lute music
6 - Duet and consort music in solo lute sources
A major part of this book was originally submitted to the University of Oxford in 1993 as a Doctoral thesis