"Musicke with her silver sound--" : being the finest of musicke for solo lute from Renaissance England : collected from manuscript sources / edited by Richard Darsie and John Robinson.

Publisher: [Davis, Calif.?] : Silver Sound Publications, c1999.

Description: xviii, 193 p. of music ; 28 cm.

Subject: Lute music.
Dance music England 16th century.
Dance music England 17th century.
Variations (Lute).
Intabulations (Lute).

Notes: "The music for this anthology is taken from eighteen English manuscript sources ... All the English genres of the period are represented ..., including fantasias, pavans, galliards, almains, maskes, toys, jigs, variations on popular tunes and vocal intabulations, as well as the French-influenced corantos, Italian-influenced passingmeasures and quadro galliards and Italianate preludes. The anthology is completed by a selection of pieces ascribed to composers ... such as Ambrose (Lupo?), Robert Ascue, Brewster, (Baruch?) Bulman, (Clement?) Cotton, Knowles, Lusher, Mathias Mason, Thomas Moone, 'N, ' Newman and Philli(p van Wilder?)"--Introd., p. xviii.
Tablature notation.
Critical notes and introd. in English.

Contents: Willoughby lute book -- Dallis lute book -- Archimedes 1544 -- Marsh lute book -- Wickhambrook lute book -- Sampson lute book -- William Ballet lute book -- Mynshall lute book -- Hirsch lute book -- Pickering lute book -- Welde lute book -- Trumbull lute book -- Königsberg lute ms. -- Cosens lute book -- Cambridge University Library Dd. 2.11 -- Cambridge University Library Dd. 5.78.3 -- Cambridge University Library Dd. 9.33 -- Cambridge Trinity Library O.16.2 -- M.L. lute book -- Board lute book.