Dear friends, James A Stimson wrote:
[DEL: > Just because Francesco didn't include an= y dances in his publications :DEL] [DEL: > doesn't mean he never played them. :DEL] Of course not. They had to play much dance music. And beside so= los much ensemblemusic, too. Also, they played to diners and the like, where probab= ly not the lute music was the loudest... Thus this is how they worked in real life, but their editions, = the tablatures of Francesco da Milano or Bakfark show what they considered themselves, highb= row musicians, composers of serious music. They choose carefully what to prese= nt in their editions: fantasias and intabulations, and no dance music and the li= ke. Also, as Denys Stephens rightly put, they were choosing even their intabulations= not without considering what the text says. It is certainly not by chance, tha= t Bakfarks first book ends with the intabulation of Verdelot's "Ultimi mei sospi= ri" while the Cracow lute book with Josquin' "Faulte d'argent". It has been pr= obably immediately understood by his contemporaries as a kind of joke. Best wishes, Peter--------------------- Peter Kir=E1ly Glockenstr. 34 D-67655 Kaiserslautern T/Fax. (00)49 631 69866 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
