Sidney Beck

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Sidney Beck was a lutenist and musicologist who was principally responsible for reviving the English broken consort. He made the first modern editions of this music and had a professional consort in New York State.

Some of the music in the Morley Consort Lessons is incompleteso there was some considerable reconstruction / recomposition to be done.

The First Book of Consort Lessons, Collected by Thomas Morley 1599 & 1611, Reconstructed and Edited by Sidney Beck (CF Peters Corporation, New York, 1959).