Music for Elizabethan Lutes: The Osborn Commonplace-Book Tablatures and Related Sources
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Product Description 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 The manuscript comprises an important and previously unpublished collection of music for lute, gittern, and guitar, written in tablature.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 of music is now available, the book also provides fascinating insights into the development of popular verse and music, particularly in connection with the use of ballad tunes.
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THE THESIS
This work investigates the musical content and cultural significance of a mid-sixteenth-century manuscript found within the Osborn collection at Yale University's Beinecke Library. John M. Ward, a Professor Emeritus of Music at Harvard University, utilizes his extensive expertise in Renaissance musicology to transcribe these tablatures into modern notation. The text argues that this specific collection provides a critical link in understanding the evolution of English popular verse and the integration of ballad tunes into instrumental performance.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Transcriptions of music for lute, gittern, and guitar from the Osborn manuscript.
- A comprehensive introduction and scholarly commentary on sixteenth-century performance practice.
- Analysis of the relationship between instrumental tablature and contemporary popular ballad traditions.
Scope Limits
- The work is restricted to the specific manuscript sources identified in the Osborn collection.
- It does not provide a general history of all Elizabethan music, focusing instead on the specific repertoire contained within these volumes.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts in the field of Renaissance musicology recognize this set as a foundational resource for performance practice and historical research. Scholars frequently note the academic rigor and precision of Ward's transcriptions, identifying the volumes as a significant contribution to the study of English musical history.
Page Count:
380
Publication Date:
1992-07-23
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0193152649
ISBN-13:
9780193152649
Music
Music English
Music History
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Lute Music
Musicology
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