Dear baroque lutenists, I suppose we all know there are mistakes in the mss and in the printed music, both old and new. And we every now and then must correct them. It is interesting, how much and what kind of corrections each one is ready to make and will not make. I have an example as original handwriting, modern edition and I also have marked my choses to both of them. I also play my "final" version. The piece is La Mignonne by F. Dufault. As far as I know, the only source is ms. Barbe, p. 64. You can find the original and the CNRS edition in
[1]http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/LaMignonneFacsim ile.pdf and [2]http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/LaMignonneNotati on.pdf I have marked my corrections and "de-corrections" to both of them And my playing of my version is in [3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH1pp52VBs There are a few interesting "mistakes" and corrections of "mistakes" in the ms. and in the CNRS edition: * Second last bar of A section: CNRS has moved the letter "c" from 5th course to 4th, from e to g in C major chord. I agree. * Section B, 4th whole bar: there is no comma (,) after the open first string a, neither in the original or the CNRS. I think there must be an ornament, because of similiar places before and after. * The A section has 16 bars, the B section has only 15. The editor of CNRS has composed an extra bar after the 7th bar of the original. To me that sounds really bad! Perhaps something else in some other place would work? Anyhow, the original version with its 15 bars in B section doesn't sound at all "incomplete" to my ears - the music anyhow is already quite irregular in itself. So here I definitely keep the original 15 bars. * B section, bars 10 and 11 (11 and 12 in CNRS): The tabulature bass line in both versions is D'-F-C. I think the writer of the ms. has made here the typical error of placing a letter one course off. To me it should read D'-C-Bb'. And so I play it. Much nicer and fits better to the structure of the piece. All the best, Arto -- References 1. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/LaMignonneFacsimile.pdf 2. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/LaMignonneNotation.pdf 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH1pp52VBs To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
