>> Frank Nordberg wrote: > >> Very interesting Frank. I remember you referring to the Peter Bang MS, >> which turned out to be for a viol rather than a cittern. (By the way, did >> that MS have a date?) > > The Bang manuscript has been dated to 1679 but I don't think anybody > seriously believes that. Late 1680s to 1690s is more likely. > >> I thought that the Bang MS was the only potential source of 18th century >> cittern music in Norway. > > I know of three 18th C. Norwegian books with cittern music: > > + The Storm ms., with basic playing and tuning instructions and a handful of > simple instrumental pieces. Written by Edvard Storm in Copenhagen between > 1779 and 1785 and more continental than Norwegian in style. > Wikipedia has an article about Storm: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Storm > > + The Dedekam ms., some songs with simple cittern accompaniment. Written by > Mette Kirstine Dedekam and dated to 1799. > > + A cittern tutorial published by Lorents Nicolai Berg (1743-1784) in > Kristiansand in 1782. As far as I know, no copies have survived. I'm not sure > if Are is still on the list. If he is, maybe he's got some more info.
I am still here! But I don't know more manuscripts than you do... But I can add that the priest Jacog Nicolai Wilse describes the use of "Cintrinque" for folk music in the village of Spydeberg southeast of Oslo in 1779. >> So this Edvard Storm MS is not using a major key, chordal tuning as in many >> parts of Europe. It's a cithrinchen (Bell cittern tuning) down a tone? > > Is it? I thought the citrinchen was tuned in an open chord. The Grove Music article on cithrinchen mentions a swedish manuscript from 1722 (Lund, Universitet, Universitetsbiblioteket, Handskriftsavdelningen Wenster G30) whith french tabulature for an instrument called "cittringen". One of the tunings for this instrument is given as c-f-a-c'-e'-a', which should be exactley the same tuning intervals as given in the Storm manuscript! Are To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
