I am not an expert on lute notation but that //a would mean the second theorbo string. This was intended for a theorbo lute. The theorbo strings are not fretted and are usually follow a scale. So if the lowest lute note is a G, then /a would be f or f#, and //a would mean e.
Jeremiah Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T Richard Shann <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 18:47 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: >> I attach a pdf of the Pavana Dolorosa extracted from the tablature >> transcribed by G. Furhmann >> It seems that (some of?) the low string(s) are not tuned as expected, >> since low D appears in C chords (etc.?). >I have located the place in Fuhrmann's transcription (see attached >screenshot). The notatation is //a on the lowest space, is this >plausibly C not D??? > >Richard > > > >> Can anyone throw any light on this? Specifically the step from tab to >> lilypond must involve some specification of the tuning - who provides >> this? >> >> I will check in some extra Denemo goodies that I used to create this >> from the .ly file that Edgar sent me (unfortunately, no progress on >> lilypond import itself, it falls over on easy to skip things, like >> tenuto markings and slurs...) >> >> Richard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Denemo-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel > > >_______________________________________________ >Denemo-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
