Table of Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i
• EDITORIAL POLICY iii
• ABBREVIATIONS: iv
  • General iv
  • Library sigla v
  • Manuscripts vi
  • Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed sources ix
• GLOSSARY OF TERMS: XII
  • Palaeographical: letters xii
  • Paleographical: scripts xv
  • Paper, printing and binding xviii
  • Musical xxiii
• INTRODUCTION 1
  • Background 1
  • Concordances 9
• 1 - THE LUTE 13
  • Symbolism and science 13
  • Construction and tuning 14
  • Notation 17
  • Patronage and employment 22
  • Learning the Lute 27
• 2 - THE ENGLISH LUTE REPERTORY 35
  • Shape and survival 35
  • Genres 40
  • Sources before 1580 55
  • Sources 1580-1615 58
  • Sources after 1615 66
  • The 'Golden Age' 68
• 3 - MANUSCRIPTS: TYPES, CHARACTERISTICS AND COMPILATION 70
  • Printed lute sources 73
  • Scribal publications 73
  • Fragments 76
  • Teaching fragments 78
  • Professional books 82
  • Pedagogical books 87
  • Household or personal anthologies 97
  • Foreign sources with activity by an English scribe 100
  • Ghosts 101
• 4 - LUTE SCRIBES AND HANDWRITING 102
  • Literacy 104
  • Learning to write 109
  • Tools 116
  • Types of script 118
  • Examining lute scribes 120
  • Table 126
• 5 - DATING LUTE MANUSCRIPTS I: MATERIAL EVIDENCE 128
  • Recorded dates, dateable marginalia 130
  • Binding, format 133
  • Watermarks 138
  • Music paper, ruling 143
• 6 - DATING LUTE MANUSCRIPTS II: IMPLIED EVIDENCE 150
  • History of the source, owner or scribe 150
  • Scribal concordances 152
  • Type of lute and tunings 157
  • Repertory, dateable elements in ascriptions 158
  • Style of handwriting and notation, graces 167
  • Compilation and Layout 171
  • Stemmatics 177
• 7 - CASE STUDIES 181
  • Herbert 182
  • ML and Krakow 188
  • Board and Hirsch 200
  • Mynshall and Swarland 222
  • Richard Allison 230
  BIBLIOGRAPHY 247
• LIST OF TABLES AND EXAMPLES 262
• INDEX 266

  APPENDICES

• 1 - INVENTORIES OF ENGLISH SOURCES VOL. II, 279
• 2 - INVENTORIES OF FOREIGN SOURCES VOL. III, 641
• 3 - INDEX OF COMPOSERS 789
• 4 - INDEX OF MUSIC TITLES 801
• 5 - DATEABLE ELEMENTS IN TITLES OF LUTE MUSIC 830
• 6 - DUET AND CONSORT MUSIC IN SOLO LUTE SOURCES 838