[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Frank A. Gerbode, M.D.
Gerle uses [DEL: 1 :DEL] , [DEL: 2 :DEL] , [DEL: 3 :DEL] , [DEL: 4 :DEL] , [DEL: 5 :DEL] etc. on the 6th course and A, B, C, D, E, etc. on the 7th course. I have not seen an 8th course intabulated in Gerle. --Sarge On 6/5/2020 07:33, Christopher Stetson wrote: Thanks from me

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Joachim Lüdtke
Dear Martin, dear all -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: [LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music Datum: 2020-06-05T18:18:42+0200 Von: "Martin Shepherd" An: "Lute List" [snip] Incidentally, this is also the tuning used in an early MS (Thibault?), = I-Bu MS 596. HH. 24; I-PESo MS 1144 Just my pennywoth

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Tristan von Neumann
You are missing the point. You are talking to the few hundred people on Earth who play old lute pieces... Imagine Average Joe of today with a score of a Beatles song. Yeah. On 05.06.20 18:23, G. C. wrote: So people on this list, are playing Renaissance and Baroque music

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Jussi-Pekka Lajunen
The mailing list software seems to have added a non-breaking space to the link. I hope the link works this time. [1]http://gerbode.net/facsimiles/GerleH/Musica_Teutsch_1532/ J-P L Arthur Ness kirjoitti 5.6.2020 klo 20.21: Your link doesn't work for me. But I know how to get

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Jussi-Pekka Lajunen
http://gerbode.net/facsimiles/GerleH/Musica_Teutsch_1532/  (f. q1–q3) J-P L Martin Shepherd kirjoitti 5.6.2020 klo 19.16: Can anyone provide me with a photo of the pages? When I last looked at it, those 3 pieces seemed to be for a 7c lute (13 strings, as he says in the rubric) with the 7th

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 05. Juni 2020 17:48 CEST, Monica Hall schrieb: [...] > But seriously things did continue to be copied long after they had first > appeared in print. For instance Castillian's manuscript copied in 1730 > includes pieces which were 80 years old at the time. Unless the ms. is

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Monica, I don't wholly disagree with you that 'stylistic' grounds can be a bit of a minefield but, I suggest and believe, can still be both useful and instructive if taken with an appropriate dose of scepticism.. I don't really accept your student's assertion that 'style

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread G. C.
So people on this list, are playing Renaissance and Baroque music because they have the records? H G. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Martin Shepherd
Can anyone provide me with a photo of the pages? When I last looked at it, those 3 pieces seemed to be for a 7c lute (13 strings, as he says in the rubric) with the 7th course tuned a fourth below the sixth.  Incidentally, this is also the tuning used in an early MS (Thibault?), showing that

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Tristan von Neumann
If we didn't have recordings, people would have to play them on instruments... I think many of those songs would have disappeared already... On 05.06.20 18:03, G. C. wrote: What are 80 years? We are still enjoying playing and listening to Beatles and Stones music, near 60 years

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread G. C.
What are 80 years? We are still enjoying playing and listening to Beatles and Stones music, near 60 years old. And even older Jazz music. Why would people in the 17th century have been any different? G. -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Monica Hall
Well - you never know...many many years ago when I was still at school I made a copy by hand of the whole of Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate. I played in an early music group and we performed this. I was very taken with it. The score and parts were borrowed from the BBC as it had not at

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Tristan von Neumann
The 8c. is merely an addition by Sarge. It's nice to have this version if you don't have a D diapason ready. On 05.06.20 16:33, Christopher Stetson wrote: Thanks from me too, �Ron. � I looked at the transcription, and at least one of them calls for eight courses. � I don't

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Christopher Stetson
Thanks from me too, Ron. I looked at the transcription, and at least one of them calls for eight courses. I don't read German tablature (or German language, so I need to ask for Tristan's help), but know something of of it, so I assume Gerle would have had to use special

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Tristan von Neumann
Thanks Ron, though I was referring to published music, not to the fact that there were lutes with more courses. Are there any even earlier examples? : On 05.06.20 14:12, Ron Andrico wrote: Tristan, it is a common misconception that early sixteenth-century music should only be

[LUTE] Re: 7c. Lute music

2020-06-05 Thread Ron Andrico
Tristan, it is a common misconception that early sixteenth-century music should only be played on a six-course lute. Just like the misconception that lutenists only played with a plectrum until 1507, misguided modern historians mistakenly believe that seven-course lutes did not

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 05. Juni 2020 12:27 CEST, Monica Hall schrieb: > To be honest I don't think it is the usual classic scholarly course to > attempt to date a source by its contents and style. Someone on an earlier > occasion on the list commented That's what I just wanted to reply as well. >

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Monica, Well quite true - but if there's nothing else it at least gives a rough indication. I mean I'm pretty sure from stylistic grounds it wasn't compiled in, say, Arthur Sullivan's times Regarding bibliographical makeup, as said I'm entirely ignorant of its

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Monica Hall
To be honest I don't think it is the usual classic scholarly course to attempt to date a source by its contents and style. Someone on an earlier occasion on the list commented "As a musicologist student, I learned that style criticism should be avoided because it cannot be valid evidence”.

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Ralf, No - I'm not suggesting your 'circular reasoning', in particular I can't see I suggested that, as you put it, 'The music wasn't fashionable because it isn't contained in MS. from that time'. Rather I'm adopting the usual classic scholarly course of attempting to date

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 05. Juni 2020 10:34 CEST, Martyn Hodgson schrieb: >Dear Monica, >Indeed - the Ms may have been copied later than the 1680/90s I >suggest. But bear in mind that most of the lute works are from the >earlier generation such as Pinel (d. 1661) Strobel (d.1669),

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Ralf Mattes
Am Freitag, 05. Juni 2020 10:16 CEST, Martyn Hodgson schrieb: [...] >Note the tiorba works are copied from the last leaf of the book going >forwards No - the book was started with the theorbo pieces and then someone continued with the baroque pieces from the end of the book ...

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Monica, Indeed - the Ms may have been copied later than the 1680/90s I suggest. But bear in mind that most of the lute works are from the earlier generation such as Pinel (d. 1661) Strobel (d.1669), Hotman (also a tiorba player d.1663), Dufault (d. 1672), Gautier d'Angleterre

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Monica Hall
Many thanks!! Monica > On 05 June 2020 at 09:16 Martyn Hodgson > wrote: > > >see here >[1]A-Wn MusHs 17706 > > [scribd.png] > > A-Wn MusHs 17706 > >Note the tiorba works are copied from the last leaf of the book

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Petrus Paulus Maria Steur
Just follow the link given in the database ([1]https://mss.slweiss.de/index.php?id=1=ms=A-Wn17706=A =deu=all) Peter Mail priva di virus. [2]www.avg.com Il giorno ven 5 giu 2020 alle ore 10:20 Martyn Hodgson <[3]hodgsonmar...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> ha scritto: see

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
see here [1]A-Wn MusHs 17706 [scribd.png] A-Wn MusHs 17706 Note the tiorba works are copied from the last leaf of the book going forwards M On Friday, 5 June 2020, 08:58:49 BST, Monica Hall wrote: I was

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Monica Hall
I was wondering about that as I don't actually have a copy of this particular ms. only the Goess ms. Monica > On 05 June 2020 at 08:45 "s.wa...@ntlworld.com" wrote: > > It would be very interesting to see what this music looks like. Are there > any images online? > > Sent from my

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Monica Hall
For the record Bartolotti's Libro primo de chitarra Spagnola is dated 1640. He must have at least been in his twenties when it was printed - so born 1620 or earlier. He died before January 1682. In the record books of the Secrétariat de la Maison du Roi (Louis XIV) there is an entry in

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti music for theorbo

2020-06-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Roland, Bartolotti's precise dates seem unknown at present but c.1630 - 1682 may be a reasonable estimate. The inclusion of works for lute by Losy (b.1650) and Ginter(b.1661) in the earlier part of this Ms suggests a date around 1680/90 for its compilation. The tiorba was,