Dear Nigel, By now you will have found Frank Gerbode's site, which Roger Traversac passed on to you via the French Lute List. May I add that Thomas Morley's tablature accompaniment in G major is not easy to play. It's all so much easier, if you transpose everything down a tone to F major. Not only does this help the lutenist; singers (from my own experience) find G major just a little bit too high, and welcome the downward transposition too. If I remember right, at least one modern edition has the song in F major.
My suggestion to transpose down to F major might seem to contradict my previous e-mail, the one in answer to Doc Rossi's e-mail on Vivaldi and anachronism. I try where possible to be historically correct, but I don't let this get in the way of the music. Thomas Morley was almost certainly not a lutenist. We know that he was a keyboard player, and the accompaniments to his lute songs do not fall well under the hand. I think there is a good case for adapting them to make them playable. Best wishes, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "nigelsolomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: It was a lover > Could anybody send me the tablature (in G) for "It Was a Lover and His > Lass" (Morley?) > > Many thanks > > Nigel
