Anthony Holborne, Music for Lute and Bandora

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for 6 to 9-course lutes (mostly playable on 6 or 7-course lutes), transcribed and edited in two volumes by Rainer aus dem Spring. Holborne is the second best-represented composer in the sources after John Dowland: volume 1 (218 pages) contains 58 lute solos, plus variant versions, 19 bandora solos, 2 lute songs, 10 appendix items; volume 2 (148 pages) contains full critical commentary, with variant bars fully written out in tablature. This is a comb-bound reprint of the original perfect bound edition. ISBN 0 905655 20 6. Members: £20 Non members: £30 View Lute Intabulations of Works by Peter Philips edited by David Smith and John Robinson. All known versions of the four great hits of this English emigré composer, the Dolorosa pavan and galliard, and the 1580 pavan and galliard, as they are found intabulated for lute or lute duet (plus a song version) in sources all over Europe. Contains a 22-page critical essay with concordances and full textual commentary, and 23 pieces (36 pages) of music.Mostly for 6-course lute. ISBN 0 905655 17 6 Members: £7 Non members: £10 View The Complete Lute Solos of Philip Rosseter edited by Robert Spencer, Stewart McCoy and John Robinson. 10 solos, 4 in alternative versions from different sources, for 6 to 9-course lutes by this accomplished musician of the ’Golden Age’, 44 pages, Members: £7 Non members: £10 View Tunes of Old London edited by Lynda Sayce, formerly published by Sul Tasto Editions. . Members: £3 Non members: £4 View Thomas Mace, Eight ‘Setts’ for lute from Musick’s Monument (1676) transcribed for 10-course renaissance lute, and for 10 string or alto classical guitar As a stylistic postscript to the English Golden Age, new transcriptions that make this attractive and not-too-difficult music accessible to those who do not have Mace’s 12 course lute in French Flat tuning. The 10th course is sparingly used, so much of the music can be played on a standard 7-course renaissance lute wi