> I suppose it is worth mentioning in this context that Cabezon and Henestrosa's > keyboard music was for "tecla, harpa y vihuela", so keyboard players, harpists > and vihuela players were all expected to play from the same notation, which is a > form of tablature.
Hate to object, but organ tablature is not a tablature like lute tablature (charting fret board positions), but a pitch notation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_tablature (the German version is better organized). So musicians of all instruments as well as singers could rightfully be expected to sing and play from organ tablature. Dietrich Buxtehude wrote all of his works in organ tablature, including the voice parts, and he by no means was an exception. Modern keyboard players and harpists will have to be specialists, though, reading tab. During the 15th through 18th centuries, there would mainly be one type of lute around with its distinct tuning, whereas today we have surviving tablatures for 6c to 10c ren lutes, 11c to 13c bar lutes, theorbos, archlutes, not to speak of angeliques and mandoras. "Next time I'll play from the staff, not from the tablature" sounds like a self-deprecating joke to me, rather than matter-of-fact-speech. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
