Are Vidar Boye Hansen wrote: > 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.
Seems that the Bang manuscript is for the lyra viol then - unless it isn't just the tunes, but the actual arrangements that are found in Playford that is. Seems to suggest an interesting topic for our British friends to investigate btw: the similarities between 17th century English lyra viol music and 18th century English guittar music. > So the 1679-dating on the mansucript must be > wrong, maybe it is supposed to be 1697? Well, Playford and Bang may have gotten the music from the same source. But the 1679 dating is more than a bit suspicious anyway, and it has been taken at face value for way too long. In 1887 a gentleman named Ivar Moe who had aquired the manuscript 30 years earlier, uses some blank pages at the end to write an account on how he came across the book. That's where he says it dates back to 1679 - without offering any evidence whatsoever. > > 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. Do you have any idea where to find those to books? Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
