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The Lute Music of Antony Holborne

A Lecture-Recital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Brian Jeffery
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This paper is particularly about only one part of the music of Antony Holborne: his lute music. I should like this evening to discuss this music, to state what exists, to describe it and some of the problems that arise in connexion with it, to play you some of it, and also to put it into its context both as one aspect of Holborne's varied output and as one part of the considerable repertory of English lute music of the Renaissance.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 93 , 1966 , pp. 25 - 31
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Copyright © 1967 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

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