Danke, Matthias, that's helpful.
I think quitam is quintam. Would make more sense to me. (All I have is
a 1900-ish edition of the text and music. The little wiggly things
above the letters might well be missing in this edition. The original
is by Cornelis Schuyt, ca 1600)
With the aid of your translation and the music in front of me, I come
to something like this, but it is a wishful translation to what seems
to work with the music:
Canon with two answers. (meaning there are two possible solutions to
the canon?)
For four [voices]. Or: canon in fourth. (Which makes sense for
entrances 2 and 3)
The last [voice] (meaning the bass, or the last of entrances 2 and 3?)
is (comes) first, and the first [voice] comes the second [entrance].
Puzzling line, it might hint at the second solution?
These two entrances can be interchanged (meaning equal voices?).
The fourth entrance answers in the fifth below.
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David van Ooijen
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[2]www.davidvanooijen.nl
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On 28 May 2016 at 13:20, Mathias RAP:sel
<[3]mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote:
Ave!
Anyone able to shed some light on this Latin description on how
to
solve a canon riddle?
Canon doppia consequenza. A 4.
Even the Latin is a riddle to me. Sure that quitam in the 3rd line
is
correct?
Mathias
Ultimi erunt primi et primi Secundi.
The last ones will be the the first ones, and the first ones [will
be]
second
Vices suas alternis quisque obitote.
each of you shall go interchangingly
Quartae periodo, quitam periodum reciprocam subiicitote.
You shall subject the possible period tuned back to the fourth
period
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2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/
3. mailto:mathias.roe...@t-online.de
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