And as for your precise question, whether or not Gumprecht may have been teacher to Louise's father, Frederick Louis, that seems very likely IMO. Gumprecht was 48 at Frederick's birth, and when Gumprecht died, Frederick was 16 or 17.
Mathias -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Mathias Rösel Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2017 21:02 An: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature Dear Arthur, That is interesting! Thanks for that. In 1681, father and son Gumprecht wrote a letter to the council of Stasburg, requesting that Jean Bethune, who was about to settle in Strasburg as an angélique teacher, be repelled from town. They seem to have been successful, as nothing is heard of Bethune afterwards. That very Bethune was the teacher of Marguerite Monin (whose lute book of 1664 in preserved in Paris) and of that student who penned down the angélique book that has been reproduced and published in facsimile by Minkoff as the only angélique tablature so far (F-Pn Rés. 169, manuscript Béthune). (Source: http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Instrumente/Angelique/Angelique.html) Obviously, they considered Jean Bethune a rival to Gumprecht the younger in matters of the angélique. Gumprecht's appointment in Stuttgart as a teacher as from 1688 may have been a delayed result of the untimely death of William Louis of Württemberg († 1677). William's widow had been appointed regent and custodian to her four children: Eleonore Dorothea (died in 1683 at the young age of nine), Eberhardine Luise (1675–1707), Eberhard Ludwig (1676–1733), and Magdalena Wilhelmine (1677–1742). At Gumprecht's arrival, Eberhardine was 13, Eberhard was 12, and Magdalena was 11 years old. Gumprecht and Eberhard weren't allowed more than five years, as Eberhard was declared politically mature at age 16 by the emperor in 1693. Eberhard became father to Frederick Louis in 1698, crown prince of Württemberg (who never became duke, as he died before his father in 1731). Frederick in 1716 married Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt, with whom he had two children: Eberhard Friedrich (1718–1719) and Louise Frederica (1722–1791). Louise Frederica of Württemberg was granddaughter to Gumprecht's student Eberhard of Württemberg. She was 11 years old when her grandfather died. Later she married Frederick II Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and brought her lute books to Mecklenburg. So, if Gumprecht left Stuttgart in 1715, he never came to see and teach Louise of Württemberg whose lute books we can study today. Mathias -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Arthur Ness Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2017 15:37 An: mathias.roe...@t-online.de; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature Dear Mathias, Thank you for sending the *.PDF tablature with the midi audio. Incidentally Johann Gumprecht, d. J., (b. 1645) served in Stuttgart 1688-1715 as "Fürstliche Kammer- und Tutelar-Rat für die musikalische Erziehung der herzoglichen Kinder" [Sittard, p. 65]. He played at the usual functions (at Mass, at dinner, instructing the children and pages, etc.), but was especially admired for playing the Angèlique. He brought with him the French Lautenkunst as practiced in Strasbourg. Did he teach Princess Luisse's father? Arthur Ness arthurjn...@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: Mathias Rösel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> To: 'Lute net' <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sat, May 27, 2017 6:31 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: German keyboard tablature 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 <<<SNIP>>> Mathias -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alain Veylit [[1]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" 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 > [2]http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Instrumente/Angelique/Angelique.htm l > > Notation der Basschöre), for which not more than two additional > characters are required: _a_ (underlined) and /////a > > Mathias -- References 1. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com? 2. http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Instrumente/Angelique/Angelique.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
