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Non members: £15 View British Library Additional Manuscript 31389, a Venetian lute manuscript of c.1520 edited by Denys Stephens and John H. Robinson. Chronologically the fourth Italian MS containing a significant amount of lute music known to survive, after the Pesaro, Thibault and Capirola MSS, but it lacks rhythm signs, so heavy editing has been required. 12 dances, 9 dance-like pieces, 2 recercars, an incomplete piece of recercar type (all for solo lute), for 6-course lute in tuning, transcribed into French tab, 56 pages. ISBN 0 905655 54 0 Members: £7 Non members: £10 View Philip van Wilder, Music for Lute and Chanson Transcriptions For 6-course lute, the complete extant lute works of Henry VIII’s luter, edited by David Humphreys, with Ian Harwood and Stewart McCoy; 9 solo works (including the famous ’Dump Philip’or ’Arthur’s Dump’), a duet for two lutes a fifth apart, and 8 pieces for lute and voice or treble instrument; 49 pages of music in all, with critical commentary, with translations of French lyrics. ISBN 0 905655 23 0 Members: £7 Non members: £10 View Renaissance Lute Music from German Sources for 6-course lute, edited and transribed into French tablature by Martin Shepherd. 56 pieces, chosen on grounds of musical quality from 16th century printed sources, and ranging from very easy to fairly hard. 92 pages. ISBN 0 905655 27 3 Members: £8 Non members: £12 View Selections from Piccinini and Kapsberger for Solo Renaissance Lute transribed into French tablature and edited by Carin Zwilling, with biographical and bibliographical notes. Six pieces by Piccinini and four by Kapsberger in a variety of forms, for 7 to 10-course lute, mostly playable on 7-course lute, intended as a ’taster’ of these composers’works, 34 pages. ISBN 0 905655 26 5 Members: £6 Non members: £9 View Francesco da Milano Fantasias in British Sources edited by Gordon Gregory. All the music by Francesco da Milano in British manuscript sources, all 6-course,minimally edited to preserve local variants; 20 pieces of music: 11 fantasias close
