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November 13, 2011 "Writing, not about the body, but the body itself": Lute Manuscripts and the Resistance to

Print in Early Modern England Dr. Graham Freeman

Example 1 – English Sources for Solo Lute Music 1580 - 1625 1 Major Sources Source Date Comments Add. 2764(2) c. 1585-90 25 fragmentary items Add. 31392 c. 1600-5 31 solos Add. 38539 c. 1615-20 83 solos Berlin 40641 c. 1615 27 solos Ballet (408/1) c. 1595 24 items Ballet (408/2) c. 1600-03 64 items Board c. 1620-5 100 solos Brogyntyn c. 1595-1600 9 solos Cosens c. 1606-10 70 solos Dallis c. 1583-5 228 items Dd.2.11 c. 1590-95 264 solos Dd.4.22 c. 1615 24 solos Dd.5.78.3 c. 1595-1600 159 solos Dd.9.33 c. 1600-5 156 solos Euing c. 1605-10 72 solos Folger c. 1590-5 41 solos Herbert c. 1625-40 242 solos Hirsch c. 1595 54 solos Marsh c. 1595 159 solos Mynshall c. 1597-9 36 solos Nn.6.36 c. 1605-15 78 solos O.16.2 c. 1620 20 solos Pickeringe c. 1616 66 solos Sampson c. 1609 17 solos Trumbull c. 1600 26 solos Welde c. 1600-5 36 solos Wickhambrook c. 1595-1600 20 solos Minor or Fragmentary Sources GB-Lb Add. 6402 c. 1605 fragments of 4 pieces GB-Lb Add. 41498 c. 1590 fragment of 1 piece GB-Lb Add. 15117 c. 1615 7 solo lute pieces GB-Occ 254 c. 1600 fragments of 2 pieces

1 Matthew Spring. The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and its Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 109-110.

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GB-Och Mus. 1280 c. 1590 fragments of 2 pieces GB-Omc 265 c. 1605 fragments of 4 pieces Westminster Abbey Library c. 1615 seven short pieces US-LAuc M286 M4L 992 c. 1600-10 1 piece Major Published Sources William Barley, A New Book of Tablature (1597): 7 lute compositions Thomas Robinson, The Schoole of Musicke (1603): 32 solos Robert Dowland, Varietie of Lute Lessons (1610): 49 solos Minor Published Sources John Danyel, Songs for the Lute, Viol, and Voice (1606): 1 lute piece John Dowland, First Booke of Songs or Airs (1597): 1 piece John Dowland, Second Book of Airs (1600): duet for lute and bass viol John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (1612): 1 piece Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (1610): 1 piece John Maynard, The XII Wonders of the World (1611) 6 pieces Francis Pilkington, First Book of Songs or Airs (1605) 1 piece Francis Pilkington, Second Set of Madrigals (1624) 1 orpharion piece Example 1a – Timespan of English Lute Manuscripts

1) Sources from 1530-1580 2) Sources from 1580-1615 3) Sources after 1615

Example 1b – Categories of English Lute Manuscripts

1) Fragments 2) Teaching Fragments 3) Professional Books 4) Pedagogical Books

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Example 2 – Trumbull Lute Book

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