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William Lawes. Collected Vocal Music. Edited by Gordon J. Callon. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 120-123.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2002. [Pt. 1, Solo Songs: abbrevs., p. vii-viii; gen. pref., p. ix-xii; introd., p. xiii-xxv; texts, p. xxvi-xxxvi; score, 70 p.; crit. report, p. 71-83; appendix, p. 85-91. ISBN 0-89579-513-2. $49. Pt. 2, Dialogues, Partsongs, and Catches: abbrevs., p. viii-ix; gen. pref., p. xi-xiv; introd., p. xv-xxii; texts, p. xxiii-xxxv; 5 plates; score, 116 p.; crit. report, p. 117-31; appendix, p. 133-97. ISBN 0-89579-514-0. $85. Pt. 3, Sacred Music: abbrevs., p. vii-viii; gen. pref., p. ix-xii; introd., p. xiii-xxiii; texts, p. xxiv-xxxiv; 9 plates; score, 207 p.; crit. report, p. 209-32; appendix, p. 233-40. ISBN 0-89579-518-3. $110. Pt. 4, Masques: abbrevs., p. vii; gen. pref., p. ix-xii; introd., p. xiii-xxvii; texts, p. xxviii-xxxi; 3 plates; score, 68 p.; crit. report, p. 69-78. ISBN 0-89579-520-5. $50.]

The names John Dowland and Henry Purcell often serve to frame seventeenth-century England's vast song tradition, as in the title of the standard work on the topic, Ian Spink's English Song: Dowland to Purcell (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: B. T. Batsford, 1974; reprint, New York: Taplinger; London: Batsford, 1986)....

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