Stewart,
I know the Ms well - I mentioned it apropos the recent communications
about octave 2nd on the Theorbo. The point being that some of the pieces
very clearly require an upper octave 2nd and some a lower; there are a few
ambiguous passages (like Melli)
Martyn
"Stewart McCoy"
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Subject: Goess MSS
10/01/2004 19:53
Dear Martyn,
There are something like 13 different Goess manuscripts. One of them
contains music for the theorbo. On the fly leaf it says:
"Livre contenant diverses pieces de theorbe des plus illustres
maistres de ce temps."
The tuning for a 14-course theorbo is given as unisons, but that
doesn't square with the re-entrant tuning. Perhaps the author
perceived unisons and octaves as the same thing, at least as far as
tuning is concerned:
"Accord du theorbe par Unissons"
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a /a /a //a ///a 4 12 13 a
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I learned a few of the pieces about ten years ago, but I found them
such hard going on my 84cm theorbo, that I never really got into
them. The music is typically French, with a thin texture suitable
for a theorbo, but ornaments and left-hand stretches made it too
much of a struggle, for me at least. I didn't pursue the repertoire,
thinking that the fault was my instrument rather than me.
Douglas Alton Smith is the chap to ask about them, because he found
the manuscripts in the first place. Hopefully there are others too,
who have played the pieces, and are more familiar with them.
Best wishes,
Stewart.
MH:
> Sorry, I meant Goess (also known as the Ebenthal MSs I believe).
Facsimiles
> of all these tablature MSs are available from Tree Editions
SAM:
> I'm afraid I don't know anything at all about the Harrach book,
but
> I'd certainly like to know more about it, if you or any one else
on
> the list could help.
MH:
> - Have you got/seen the Harrach so-called theorbo/archlute
> book? -
> which are for which?
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