So are there 2 versions of the Juden Tantz by Neusidler? The one at the site Thomas refers to works fine with the given tuning. It doesn't go higher than fret 4.The transcription in the 1960 Lute Journal also works fine and gives the same tuning, but the melody is up a fourth, the highest note at the 9th fret. It even gives a French tab transcription. From different books or the same book? cheers,
>> On 6/4/05, Thomas Schall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> If you can read german tablature >>> try http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/jtanz/jtanz.html >>> There is a facsimile of the piece On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Denys Stephens wrote: > Dear All, > I am sure Arthur will remember this, but it may be of interest to > others that that this inaccuracy in the tuning instructions for the > "Judentanz" > led to one of the great faux pas of lute musicology. Many years ago > the > eminent musicologist Willi Apel took the instructions at face value > and > wrote: > > "Der Judentanz (the dance of the Jews" .... represents one of the > earliest > examples, if not the earliest, of satire in music ...... the satirical > character is > expressed by cacophonous dissonances ...... it is written in a > strikingly > modern > idiom of bi-tonality such as rarely occurs before the advent of the > twentieth century." > > The late Michael Morrow wrote an article entitled "Ayre on the F sharp > string" which was > published in the Lute Society Journal of 1960 which corrected the > misunderstanding. > The quote above is from that article. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
