Thank you, Frank! I have had a look in "Norway's music history", edited by Arvid Vollsnes, where Hans Olav Gorset has written a little about the Peter Bang manuscript. He writes that this tuning is described in John Playford's "Musick's Recreation" (London 1682) as "Harp-way Sharp Tuning", and that a couple of the pieces found in Peter Bang's book is found in John Playford's book as well. So the 1679-dating on the mansucript must be wrong, maybe it is supposed to be 1697?
Lorents Nicolai Berg (1743-1784) published a tutor for several instruments, including sister, in Kristiansand 1782. It would be interesting to have look at that! In the booklet for the "For peasents and farmers"-CD, Hans Olav mentions a sister-book dated 1799, which belonged to a certain Mette Kirstine Dedekam. mvh Are Vidar Hansen On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank Nordberg wrote: > I mentioned earlier here a Norwegian manuscript with tabulatures for an > unidentified instrument. > > I just posted my transcriptions of the first three pieces at: > > http://www.musicaviva.com/bang-01.pdf > http://www.musicaviva.com/bang-02.pdf > and > http://www.musicaviva.com/bang-03.pdf > (temporary addresses - they'll be there for a week, probably a month but > not a year ;-) > > Does anybody have suggestions what kind of instrument this music may > have been written for? > > Frank Nordberg > http://www.musicaviva.com > http://www.tablatvre.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
