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und Gittarren- tabulaturen des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.
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Carelessness and lack of thought regarding the requisites of a musical bibliography
make this a disappointing reference tool for all working in the field. See the reviews by Douglas Alton Smith
in Journal of the Lute Society of America, 12 (1979): 78-82;
Dinko Fabris in Nuova rivisita musicale italiana 15 (1981):457-61;
and Arthur J Ness in Journal of the American Musicological Society
34 (1981): 339-45.
- 1981. Jan Olof Rudén. Music in Tablature: A Thematic
Index with Source Descriptions of Music in Sweeden. Stockholm:
Svenskt Musikhistoriskt Arkiv, 1981.
Inventory of manuscripts with thematic index.
- 1982 Dinko Fabris. 'Prime aggiunte italiane al volume RISM B/VII
--intavolature mss. per liuto e chitarra', Fontes Artis Musicae29 (1982):103-21
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Literatur von 1500 bis Gegenwart. Fifth edition.
Lillienthal/Bremen: Eres Edition, 1982.
An amateur lute enthusiast's labor of love. The fifth edition is
significantly improved, but should be used with caution.
- Dorman H. Smith. Guitar and Lute Misic in Periodicals: An Index.
Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1990.
- 1991-7. François-Pierre Goy, Christian Meyer, Monique Rollin,
Peter Kiràly, et al. Sources manuscrites en tablature: Luth et theorbe (c. 1500-c.1800). Collection d'Etudes Musicologiques, vols 82,
87 and 90, I:Confoederatio Helvetica (CH),
France (F); II: Bundesrepublik Deuchland (DK); III: Oesterreich (A),
Baden-Baden and Bouxwiller, 1991, 1994, 1997.
Title inventories with concordances. An essential bibliography.
Additional volumes in preparation.
- 1992. Dieter Kirsch. Berliner Lautentablaturen in Krakau: bescheibender Katalog
der handschriftlichen Tablaturen für Laute in der Bibliotheka
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Prussian State Library, Berlin.
Arthur J. Ness, 11 February 1998