Dear Ed, I have been working on the issue of printers errors in Dalza's book for nearly 2 years and have at last completed an article for publication by the Lute Society. I don't want to try to summarise that here, but I have no doubt that there are many errors in the tablature - some are relatively simple to spot and correct and others much more difficult. In some cases it's simply impossible to tell. As you say, we discussed Laudato Dio previously on the list, but I don't think it's possible to come up with a definite solution - to my knowledge the vocal original does not survive and there are no concordances for the piece. I very much agree that the one chord that you mention ( first chord measure 27) in the piece seems inappropriate given the overall harmony of the composition. My solution is to replace the A flat on the fourth course either with the A natural a semitone above or with C natural on the third course, third fret. But not everyone will agree with that!
My overall feeling from looking at early sixteenth century sources, both printed and in manuscript is that there are a lot of places where you have to make your own decision on how to edit a piece for performance. The luxury of comparing sources that can be done with later music rarely exists for this repertoire. My guess is that those early players like Dalza, Dall'Aquila & Capirola were first and foremost instrumentalists rather than theorists and would thoroughly approve of us making the best sense that we can of their music. Best wishes, Denys ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 8:07 AM Subject: Dalza Landato Dio > Concerning the last piece in Dalza's book, Landato Dio, there was one > chord that always troubled me. I think this topic has come up before. > I went to ftp://ftp.cs.dartmouth.edu/pub/lute/ but there doesn't seem > to be a way to search the archives. In fact, when I clicked on a file > it started to open Stuffit Expander. Most of the files are Zipped. > > Anyway, anyone familiar with the piece probably knows the chord I > mean: fourth line, beginning of 5th measure. I've played it with the > 3 on the 2nd course doubling the root instead of on the 4th course. > The lack of a third bothered me, as that would be the only chord > without one. I tried an open 3rd course or 4 on the fourth course, > although that would be harder to rationalize as a printer's error. > Recently, I've been playing the chord as written and it's starting to > sound okay to my ear, a brief dramatic dark spot contrast before > returning to the major tonality. Are my ears getting Dalza-ized? Does > this sound like a mistake or a Dalza-ism. Is there a solution I'm > missing? > > TIA > > > >
