Dear Rainer and Ed, A consort part survives (presumably for flute) for My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe. I wrote about it last year. Here are extracts from the relevant e-mails, both on the subject "Puffe".
19th March 2003: Diana Poulton gives a lot of information about My Lady Hunsdon's Almande (or Puffe) in her book, _John Dowland_ (London, Faber and Faber, 1972). I have a copy of the new, revised edition of 1982, and the relevant information is on page 161. There is too much to reproduce here. Suffice it to say that the piece turns up in Italian sources, including one where the piece is ascribed to Donino Garsi, son or nephew of Santino Garsi. One thing Diana Poulton does not mention is that there is a fragment of music, presumably for broken consort, which includes a flute part for My Lady Hunsdon's Almande. I think it was Robert Spencer who gave me a copy of it many years ago, but unfortunately I can't lay my hands on it at the moment. It will be somewhere at home. I think the fragment came to light after Diana had died, so she wouldn't have known about it. Anyway, the point is that the piece seems to have existed in an arrangement for broken consort. 23rd March 2003: In fact there are two sources which mention "puffe". The other one is the fragment of music I mentioned on the List the other day: Oxford, Christ Church Mus. 1252. This fragment consists of two pages from a part-book - numbered 30 and 31 - which together fit on an A4 sheet of paper. On page 31 is an inner part for My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, presumably a flute part for a broken consort setting, but not necessarily so, because no instrument is mentioned. The fragment was removed in 1989 from Allestree T.1.3, an Oxford binding of a printed book dated 1644. I have Robert Spencer to thank for the information and for giving me a photocopy of the fragment to study. -o-O-o- I would have thought it would be easy enough to reconstruct a consort arrangement of My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe using the surviving part. It would sound very jolly. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "adS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: Re: consort version of My Lady Hundsons? > Ed Durbrow wrote: > > Is there a consort version of My Lady Hundsons or any versions > > significantly different from the one in Poulton? > > > There is no consort version. > > I seem to remember that a single part of a mixed consoret version has survived. > > Otherwise: > > Dd.5.78.3, 7r, No Title > 6402, 1v/2, "My lady hunssdons puff Doulland" > Folger, 22v, "My Lady Hunsdons Allmande Jo: dowlande Bacheler of musick" > Dd.9.33, 38r/1, "J Dowla[nde]" > 4022, 44v/3-45r/1, "Balletto la pace" > > > Rainer adS > >
