The Lute Society of America Newsletter

Volume XXI, 1986

Table of Contents, Issue No. 1

• From the Editor, by Stockton Birthisel ~ 2
• Announcements ~ 3
• A Conversation with Toyohiko Sato, edited by Stockton Birthisel ~ 5
• Introducing the 1986 Seminar Associate Faculty ~ 7
• A Little Lute History, A Poem by Lee Engdahl ~ 7
• Jubal and the Discovery of Music, by Caroline Usher ~ 8
• Fantasia and Villanella by Adalbert Dlugoraj, Introduction by Christopher A. Galant ~ 12
  • Fantasia (tablature), Alberti Dlugorai Poloni, Thesaurus Harmonicus (1603), tr. Christopher A. Galant ~ 13
  • Villanella eiusdem (tablature), [Alberti Dlugorai Poloni], Thesaurus Harmonicus (1603), tr. Christopher A. Galant ~ 13
• 3, 4 and 20 Lutes, by Robert Meunier ~ 15
• Ricercar Primo (facsimile), Simon Gintzler ~ 17
• A Technique for Stringing a Lute with Gut, by Gusta Goldschmidt, edited by Pat O’Brien ~ 19
• Book Review
  • Reprise:  The Extraordinary Revival of Early Music, Text by Joel Cohen; photographs by Herb Snitzer (Little, Brown & Company, 1985), reviewed by Richard Lowell Childress ~ 22
• Classified Ads ~ 22
• Letter (Birth Announcement), by Beedle Hinely ~ 22

Table of Contents, Issue No. 2

• From the Editor, by Stockton Birthisel ~ 2
• James Tyler (photograph), by Robert Carpenter Turner ~ 2
• In Memoriam Alice Parkinson, December 9, 1928 – January 25, 1986, by Donna Curry ~ 3
• Correspondence, contributions by Bonnie Robiczek & Anne Burns ~ 4
• Announcements ~ 5
• An Interview with James Tyler, by Richard D’A. Jensen ~ 6
• Making Catlines at Home, by Rafael Benatar ~ 13
• “Cloris deiner Schönheit Pracht” (poem), by Jakob Kremberg (Musikalishe Gemüths-Ergötzung, Dresden, 1689), edited with translation by Catherine Liddell ~ 17
• “Cloris deiner Schönheit Pracht” (tablature plus vocal part), by Jakob Kremberg (Musikalishe Gemüths-Ergötzung, Dresden, 1689), edited by Catherine Liddell ~ 18
• Book Review
  • English Lute Songs Before 1650:  A First Line Index, by Dawn Culbertson (privately published), reviewed by Donna Curry ~ 20
• Notes from the Microfilm Librarian ~ 21
• Classified Ads ~ 22
• Staff of the LSA Newsletter ~ 22

Table of Contents, Issue No. 3

• From the Editor, by Stockton Birthisel ~ 2
• To the Memory of Jacob van de Geest (obituary), by Catherine Liddell ~ 3
• The Modern “Venice Catline” Reconsidered, by Frank Eyler ~ 3
• New Treasurer, by Beedle Hinely ~ 4
• Announcements ~ 4
• Scottish Research Collection of Guitars and Lutes, by Anne Macaulay ~ 5
• Vivaldi’s Trios and Concerti for Plucked Strings:  Four Recent Recordings, reviewed by Kevin Mason ~ 7
  • The Complete Works for Italian Lute of His Period [RV 82, 85, 93 & 540], by Antonio Vivaldi, Jakob Lindberg, lute; Nils-Erik Sparf, violin; Monica Huggett, viola d’amore and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS 290)
  • Music for Lute and Mandolin [RV 82, 85, 93, 425, 532 & 540], by Antonio Vivaldi, Paul O’Dette, lute & mandolin; Robin Jeffrey, mandolin and the Parley of Instruments directed by Peter Holman & Roy Goodman (Hyperion 66160)
  • Concerti per Mandolini [RV 93, 425, 532 & 558], by Antonio Vivaldi, Ugo Orlandi, mandolin with I solisti Veneti directed by Claudio Scimione (Erato 88042)
  • Double Concertos [RV 532 and concerti for 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, and for oboe and bassoon], by Antonio Vivaldi, James Tyler and Douglas Wooton, mandolins, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner (Philips 412 892)
• Pythagoras, by Caroline Usher ~ 10
• Reviews:  Book
  • A Brief Tutor for the Baroque Guitar by James Tyler (Chorus Publications, Helsinki), reviewed by Robert Strizich ~ 15
• Reviews:  CD
  • Renaissance Music from the Courts of Mantua and Ferrara, Circa 1500 – Emily van Evera, soprano; Nancy Hadden, flute; Erin Headley, viola da gamba & Lirone; Christopher Wilson, lute & guitar; Robert Meunier, lute (Chandos ABRD 1110), reviewed by Dawn Culbertson ~ 17
• Easy Pieces:  God Be with the Franks, by Pat O’Brien ~ 18
  • God be with the Franks (tablature), Jane Pickeringe ms., edited by Pat O’Brien ~ 18
• Four Pieces from Kremsmünster L83, by Catherine Liddell ~ 19
  • Menuette (tablature), Kremsmünster ms L83, edited by Catherine Liddell ~ 20
  • Menuette (tablature), Kremsmünster ms L83, edited by Catherine Liddell ~ 20
  • Sarabande (tablature), Kremsmünster ms L83, edited by Catherine Liddell ~ 20
  • Menuette (tablature), Kremsmünster ms L83, edited by Catherine Liddell ~ 20
• Questions You Won’t Find in Trivial Pursuit ~ 21
• Weiss Commemorative T-Shirt ~ 21
• AMIS Meeting in Virginia ~ 21
• Classifieds ~ 22
• Notes from the Microfilm Librarian ~ 22
• Staff of the LSA Newsletter ~ 23

Table of Contents, Issue No. 4

• From the Editor, by Stockton Birthisel ~ 2
• Announcements ~ 3
• Report on the French Lute Society, by Bryan Prud’Homme ~ 4
• Performance Style of the English Lute Ayre c. 1600, by Robert Spencer ~ 5
• The English Lute Ayre, An Interview with Robert Spencer, by Marc Southard ~ 12
• Untitled Passamezzo Antico from the William Ballet Book, by Pat O’Brien ~ 12
  • Untitled Passamezzo Antico (tablature), edited by Pat O’Brien ~ 14
• Seminar ’86, photographs by Patrick Hinely ~ 15, by Robert Gross ~ 15
• Recedrar Salmonis, by Robert Grossman ~ 18
  • Recedrar Salamonis (tablature) Samedan ms, ed. by Robert Grossmann ~ 19
  • Recedrar Salamonis (facsimile), Samedan ms ~ 19
• Reviews
  • Guitar Collection, works of Mudarra, Milán, Narváez, Corbetta, Sanz, de Visée, Giuliani, Sor, Carulli & Merz, Nigel North, early guitars; Maggie Cole, virginals & fortepiano (Amon Ra Digital SAR 18), reviewed by Scott Zeidel ~ 20
  • Louis Caix d’Hervelois:  Piéces de Viole, Jordi Savall, viola da gamba; Ton Koopman, harpsichord; Ariane Maurette, bass viol; Hopkinson Smith, theorbo & 5-course guitar (Astrée AS 7), reviewed by Bryan Prud’Homme ~ 21
  • David Rogers at Varner Hall, Oakland University, Rochester MI, 20 April 1986, concert review by Michael Bryce ~ 22
• Classifieds ~ 22