Hi Alain, Yes, there are two major manuscript sources and one print available online. The manuscript sources are:
1. The anonymous tablature for the angélique A 3.329, preserved in the Moravian museum in Brno (Smetanova 14, 602 00 Brno): http://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/index.php?envLang=en#search (search word: tabulatura angeliku) 2. Marguerite Monin's lute book. Folios 1r to 23v contain music for the angélique. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52503663g The print is Jakob Kremberg's Musicalische Gemüths-Ergötzung (Dresde, 1689): http://imslp.org/wiki/Musicalische_Gem%C3%BCths-Erg%C3%B6tzung_(Kremberg,_Jakob) – with his exceptional characters for the bass courses. Mathias -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Alain Veylit Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2017 18:31 An: 'Lute net' Betreff: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature Thank you Mathias for this useful detail, Except for the 17th string, it should be fairly easy to implement - one last request if you can, do you happen to have a link handy to a digital facsimile of angelique tablature? If not, I'll do my own digging, but you are more knowledgeable than I am and might pick a better sample for checking purposes. Alain On 05/27/2017 03:28 AM, Mathias Rösel wrote: > Hi Alain, > the angélique is strung with 16 single strings. Ten are on the fretboard and > six are bourdons. The pitches are as follows: > > 1st = e5 > 2nd = d5 > 3rd = c5 > 4th = b4 > 5th = a4 > 6th = g4 > 7th = f4 > 8th = e4 > 9th = d4 > 10th = c4 > 11th = b3 > 12th = a3 > 13th = g3 > 14th = f3 > 15th = e3 > 16th = c3 > > The strings are retuned as from the 4th to the 15th courses according to key. > The 16th string is sometimes retuned to D or Bb respectively, according to > key, but more often than not stays at C. > > The characters for the first six courses are the same as in lute tablature. > Angélique tablature has six lines and rhythm signs just like baroque lute > tablature. The characters for the courses below the staff are as follows: > > 7th = a > 8th = _a_ (underlined) > 9th = /a > 10th = //a > 11th = ///a > 12th = ////a > 13th = /////a > 14th = 4 > 15th = 5 > 16th = 6 > > The 7th to 10th courses, too, are frequently fretted up to the 4th fret, so > characters a to e are required for them. The 11th to 16th courses are not > fretted. > > One single manuscript (Schwerin 640) requires a 17th string so that one may > have D and C at the same time. That manuscript shows the Arabic numerals 7 to > 17 for the bass courses below the staff instead of lute tablature characters. > > Another exceptional source (Jakob Kremberg, 40 airs, Dresde 1689) shows the > following characters for the bass courses below the staff: > > 7th = a > 8th = _a_ (underlined) > 9th = /a > 10th = //a > 11th = ///a > 12th = 4 > 13th = 5 > 14th = 6 > 15th = 7 > 16th = 8 > > Mathias > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alain Veylit [mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com] > Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2017 09:29 > An: Mathias Rösel > Betreff: Re: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature > > Hi Mathias, > > Sounds feasible - but my German is rusty ... what was the tuning of the > angelique and what is the meaning of the underlined a and /////a? I would > have jumped to the conclusion that ////a was equivalent to a "4" > diapason in lute tablature, but you give 5 slashes (not 4): /////a. > Sorry for my ignorance, I hope you can help me fill up the gaps. > > I have seen some facsimiles of music for the angelique, but thought it was > very much the same as tablature for lute and did not really research that > topic further. > > Alain > > > > On 05/26/2017 02:56 PM, Mathias Rösel wrote: >> Organ tablature was in use for any instrument and even for singers, as it is >> a pitch notation. >> >> It may be much easier to expand lute tablature to the much desired >> tablature for the angélique (see >> http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Instrumente/Angelique/Angelique.html >>> Notation der Basschöre), for which not more than two additional >> characters are required: _a_ (underlined) and /////a >> >> Mathias >> >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im >> Auftrag von Alain Veylit >> Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Mai 2017 20:20 >> An: Lute net >> Betreff: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature >> >> I started implementing keyboard tablature in my software Fandango, >> but the need is so little and editing so complicated that I did not >> really complete it fully. German Keyboard tab is like German tab in >> that groups of notes hang from the top line, but letters indicate >> pitch rather than fret position, using the A-H alphabetical sequence. >> Additionally, there are two types of rhythm flags: one at the top >> similar to lute tablature flags, and individual flags for notes >> within a chord indicating how long that specific note is sustained. >> Tablature was usually reserved for the left hand, while the top part >> was in regular notation (as shown in the video). Various systems were >> used to indicate which octave the note belonged to: A, a, a' or ''a, >> or lines over the note. The system is logically simple but a real >> challenge to read, particularly when you add messy hand-writing using >> old German characters... (Buxtehude comes to mind) >> >> I thinks is the same system was used for harp tablature - as in the ap Huw >> MS - the main advantage being to indicate which note is played with which >> hand. >> >> For another mixed system notation/tablature, see modern accordion >> tablature: >> http://www.accordeondiatonique.fr/comment-lire-une-tablature-accordeo >> n >> -diatonique/ >> >> Spanish keyboard tablature was completely different if I recall... >> using numbers corresponding to the keys on the keyboard. See >> http://www.organ.byu.edu/Bush_Library/Bush%20Files/Buxheimer%20Orgelb >> u >> ch/Tablature%20notes.pdf >> >> A fascinating and very arcane subject. I am not sure what the advantage of >> a-h notation for the left hand may have been, but that system did survive >> for a couple centuries... Quicker to jot down perhaps? >> >> Alain >> >> >> On 05/26/2017 06:03 AM, keith barnhart wrote: >>> Hello Rainer, >>> >>> I read German lute tab but not keyboard (yet!). I am fascinated by the >>> system for sure although it is very hard to understand. Here is a >>> short >>> primer video that I found which doesn't explain in full but might >>> start >>> to help. >>> >>> >>> [1]https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/from-ink-to-sound/1/steps/511 >>> 9 >>> 3 >>> >>> Also, I would be happy to take a swing at a small piece to get some >>> experience working in it if you want. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:09 AM Rainer <[2]rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear lute netters, >>> I would like to check a concordance which is in (shudder) German >>> keyboard tablature. >>> Can anybody read it? >>> Rainer >>> PS >>> I have everything as digital facsimile >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Keith Barnhart >>> Little Piggy Productions LLC >>> [4]little-piggy.com >>> 303-917-4302 >>> >>> -- >>> >>> References >>> >>> 1. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/from-ink-to-sound/1/steps/51193 >>> 2. mailto:rads.bera_g...@t-online.de >>> 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> 4. http://little-piggy.com/ >>> >> >> > >
