Perhaps that was due to a certain notion of what music mainly consists of,
viz. pitches, rhythm, metre. Specific fingerings (due to strings and
tunings) and resonance (in consequence of the number of courses and their
respective tunings) didn't matter.
Mathias
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag
von Sterling Price
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. August 2015 08:52
An: AJN
Cc: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Betreff: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Buxtehude and Pachelbel (better layout?)
One more thought about Walter gerwig-- I had wondered why he used g tuning
for baroque works? Was he aware of the work done by Hans neeman in the 1930s
on the dminor lute?
Now this is no criticism of gerwig, as I have made many transcriptions of
Bach and Handel for the 14 course archlute and I adore playing baroque music
on it.
Sterling
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On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:48 PM, AJN arthurjn...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi, Sterling!
You were asking about the Buxtehude Suite in E minor (BuxWV
236) recorded by Walter Gerwig around 1954. In his recordings he
invariably used modern printed editions in pitch notation. In this
case most likely Bo Lundgren's edition (see below). There is confusion
because Gerwig transposed the suite from E minor to C minor, and does
not provide the BuxWV number.
The various scores, tablatures, etc., are listed below.
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The Pachelbel Suite in F sharp minor provides additional confusion.
One might even suggest a scam by an unscrupulous antiquarian dealer,
who represented the manuscript as an autograph of Johann Pachelbel
(1653-1706), copied in Nurnberg (where he worked from 1695 until his
death)--hence the Autogr shelf number. The dealer's statement in
writing appears with the manuscripts.
I examined the manuscriprt in person some years ago.
The bifolio gatherings had the remains of glue used by the
bookbinder to attach the paper to the spine. That is, the pages had
been gathered from a disbound volume, to make many easily sold
inexpensive fascicles. To be precise from the disbound manuscripts from
the Harrach palace in Rohrau, mostly now in the New York Public Library
(JOG 72-29). Some of those also have remainders of
binder's glue on the fold. Those separated gatherings include pieces by
the same copyist, as Marcus Lutz has pointed out.
Bob Spencer also owned some separated gatherings from the Harrach
manuscript. And others await discovery.
That manuscript dates from the mid-eighteenth century, suggesting the
composer of Ms autogr 2353ba is more likely Johann's son, Wilhelm
Hieronymus Pachelbel (1686-1764). Probably not the other son, Charles
Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750), who resided in Boston before settling
in South Carolina.g [sorry for the plug.]
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Citations:
Buxtehude, Dietrich, 1637-1707.
Vier Suiten fA 1/4r Clavichord oder Lauten /Diderich Buxtehude ;
aus der Tabulatur A 1/4bertragen und hrsg. von Bo Lundgren.
KA,benhavn : EngstrA,m SA,dring ; New York : C. F. Peters, [pref.
1954]
Contains suites in C (BuxWV 231), in F (BuxWV 238),
in em (BuxWV 236), in F (BuxWV 239) edited from Uppsala,
Universitetsbiblioteket, Ihre Ms, fols. 17-41 (keyboard tablature for
clavier).
Facsimile and grandstaff transcription from the Ryge MS,
Copenhagen, Det Konglige Bibliotek, Mu6806.1399.
[1]http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Buxtehude,_Dietrich
scroll down to Suite in E minor
Suite BuxWV 236 [in E minor in French lute tablature]
Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude; (arr. Wilfred Foxe)
Publisher: [Luebeck] : Tree Edition, (c)2006.
Title: The Baroque lute.
Lutenist Walter Gerwig;
Publisher: Nonesuch Records H 71229. [1969]
--J. S. Bach BWV 995 Suite in G minor
--D. Buxtehude Suite (BuxWV 236, performed in c minor)
--Pachelbel, Suite in f# minor
LP is Online: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTX0MycryIA
=
Pachelbel:
D-Nst (Stadtbibliothek!!) Ms autogr 2353ba: Suite by Pachelbel
in F# minor and pieces in Bb and C.
On line facsimile
[3]https://www.scribd.com/doc/143583318/D-Nst-Ms-2353-a-b-Pachelbel
References
1. http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Buxtehude,_Dietrich
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTX0MycryIA
3. https://www.scribd.com/doc/143583318/D-Nst-Ms-2353-a-b-Pachelbel
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