> What's this? > > http://www.classtab.org/#ntab > > Titled Chaconne by "Melchior Newsidler (1507/31-1590/91)". > > Is this a way to publish copyrighted music, by attributing it to a composer long gone? > > Here is the TAB: > > http://www.classtab.org/mn_chac.txt > > ajn.
This is the mother of all sautscheckerei, and there is a fascinating story behind it. This piece appeared on an LP of "renaissance" lute music in the early 1970's on the "Melodiya" label. The LP contained a SINGLE piece of authentic lute musis (Greensleeves), but the rest was composed by one Vladimir Vavilov (the performer on the LP) and ascribed to various real lute composers without any regard to appropriate style/character, most music there being quite baroque. This was the first lute recording I've ever owned. One piece from that LP, A "canzona by Francesco da Milano" became a veritable hit, and a number of poets have written texts to its melody, and not only in Russian. One version became known and loved nationwide, and by now has attained a status of a true folksong. Can you imagine a lute piece known to and/or loved by 100,000,000 people???? This was lute's greatest moment of glory ever. Vavilov didn't live to see this success, as he died young, of cancer, just before it all happened. RT == http://polyhymnion.org/swv ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
