>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.
That is most interesting Stewart. It got me to thinking, I wonder if those signs that look like fermatas in Dalza are really just a way to notate a breve. That's more or less the way I've always played them. I don't think I've ever come across a longa in tab. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
