Dear Rainer,
You're quite right, of course. Milan uses a long for the final note
of his pieces. Whether he means the last chord to be held for the
full length of a long, or it is a way of showing the end of the
piece and you let the notes ring on for as long as necessary, is
neither here nor there. He uses a long. However, he notates rhythm
with standard staff notation rhythms (crotchets, quavers, etc.), not
flags. As far as I know, there isn't a tablature flag for a long.
The older the music, the more likely it is to find long note values,
so I've just had a look at Bossinensis' songs. Where the singer's
staff notation part ends with a long, the lutenist's tablature has a
pause sign instead. I've not looked very far, but my guess is that
longs were generally confined to final bars, where the exact length
of the note was not very important.
All the best,
Stewart.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer aus dem Spring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Tablature rhythm signs
> Stewart McCoy wrote:
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> > The note known as a "long" would not normally feature in
tablature,
> > because tablature was nearly always barred. If a very long note
was
> > required ("long" or otherwise), it would be notated as lots of
> > shorter notes tied together from one bar to the next.
>
> Milan uses the longa and it looks - like a longa :)
>
> Rainer adS
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