Dear Rainer & Sean, It's in the 'Intavolatura di Lauto dell Divino Francesco da Milano et dell' eccelente Pietro Paulo Borrono ,' Milan, second printing 1548 where there is a description of the ornament in the in the regola: 'where a circle is found ( ), two fingers must be placed on the string and the finger on the lesser number must be held firm. Pull down the string with the finger which is on the higher number as if the voice were notated on the lesser of the two frets. This is done because the lute will sound sweeter. But the said circle is one stroke only.' Translation and information from Diana Poulton's article 'Graces of play in renaissance lute music,' Early Music Volume 3 no. 2 April 1975. It's also noted in the article that Wyssenbach uses the same notation in his 'Tabulatura uff die lutten' of 1550. The article also mentions references to ornamentation in Henestrosa's 'Libro de cifra' of 1557 and Waissel's 'Lautenbuch' of 1592. Still very worth reading even after all these years :-)
Best wishes, Denys -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Smith Sent: 06 March 2017 16:41 To: lute list <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Earliest printed tablature with ornaments Dear Denys, Rainer I was thinking of the Libro Ottavo, too, but found the same pattern in Intabulatura di Lauto del Divino FdM & del eccelente PPB da Milano � Libro Secondo, Venice, 1546. First instance in this book: First pavana, last system of 2nd page (m. 71), the third cipher is one too many leading us to believe it is an appogiatura. This sort of repitition occurs frequently in the dance settings in this book. I hope this helps. Sean On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Denys Stephens <denyssteph...@sky.com> wrote: > Dear Rainer, I don't have my books to hand just now, but If I remember > correctly I think there is some ornamentation in one or more of the > Borrono prints - I will look it up later. Best wishes, Denys > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 6 Mar 2017, at 10:49, Rainer <rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> wrote: >> >> Dear lute netters, >> >> According to Wikipedia >> >> "According to Frederick Neumann,[2] Vallet may have been among the first to introduce ornaments into lute tablature." >> >> Of course this is nonsense. >> >> Anyway, does anybody know of printed tablature with ornaments before 1596? >> >> Rainer >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
