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The Siena Lute Book.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)

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The Siena Lute Book. Jacob Heringman. Avie AV0036, 2004.

For this program, lutenist Jacob Heringman draws on two manuscript collections of the late sixteenth century, both produced in Tuscany: the Siena Lute Book and an untitled collection currently held in the Dolmetsch Library in Haslemere, the Netherlands. Both collections contain a mixture of original pieces for lute, intabulations of popular songs of the period, and arrangements of instrumental ensemble pieces. Heringman selected 26 pieces for this program, drawing on all categories (those who purchase the disc may download an additional three tracks from the label's Web site). Two selections, the anonymous Spagna detta Lamire quarto modo and secondo modo, are reconstructions by Heringman of contrapuntal ...

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