Music for Elizabethan Lutes: The Osborn Commonplace-Book Tablatures and Related Sources2-Volume Set

by John M. Ward

This book is a scholarly edition of a mid-sixteenth-century manuscript in the Osborn collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale. The manuscript comprises an important and previously unpublished collection of music for lute, gittern, and guitar, written in tablature. John M. Ward has carefully transcribed this music into modern notation and provided a substantial introduction and commentary. Of obvious interest to lutenists, to whom a valuable body...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193152649
• ISBN13: 9780193152649
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.2"