![]() ![]() (Note: libraries are required to sign an agreement that the contents may be posted to library or university intranet, but not public internet, please - as with most other journals we know of!) It couldn't be simpler!įree replacement, or CD ROM / memory stick version on request. ![]() Search, download, read and save any issue in PDF, wherever and whenever you want. This comes in the handy format of a single document, in Word and PDF, with a searchable contents list, and permanent url for each number of the Journal, to save on your hard drive. THE LUTE: JOURNAL OF THE LUTE SOCIETY SPECIAL OFFER: COMPLETE HOLDING FOR £60 (non-members £90)ĪLL THE LUTE SOCIETY JOURNALS SINCE 1959 IN PDF FORMATĪ complete holding of the 55 issues to date 280 articles on all aspects of the lute, and over 160 book and music reviews, for just £60, (or £90 non-members). Bach on keyboards in a counterpoint improvisation contest-now made accessible to the modern classical guitarist.To search this (or any) webpage press Control and F at the same time (or Command F on Mac) and a search bar will appear at the top of the page, where you can enter any search term you like. It contains some of the greatest music of a masterful lutenist- Weiss once faced-off with J. While just three of Weiss’s 109 multi-movement lute sonatas are represented here, the importance of this publication cannot be overstated. The author’s generous and scholarly “Preface” provides thorough historical and performance notes for the music in this volume. ![]() 45 in A Major- are in their original keys which happen to be guitar-friendly. While the baroque lute’s tuning makes some works awkward or impossible on the guitar, the three works presented here- Sonatas No. Transcriptions of three of those fifteen late sonatas are featured in this book in modern standard notation along with the original lute tablature as found in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden. ![]() Inspired by a forty-year friendship with the late Douglas Alton Smith - a major figure in the scholarly study of the history of the lute - guitarist, composer, and head of the guitar program at Temple University in Philadelphia, Allen Krantz explored the Weiss manuscripts found in other European cities, particularly the Dresden editions which contain the fifteen sonatas that Weiss produced from the late 1730s to the end of his life. Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750) is known to guitarists as the greatest baroque composer for the lute, yet most are only familiar with the earlier portion of Weiss’s prolific output found in the British Library in London. ![]()
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