Dear List, Ariel's pledge for the duets of V. Galilei might stem from the following paper by Dinko Fabris. (So sad he's not on this list!). The whole text is available on the net, a.o. in "Magnatune's" Paul Bier recording of Michelagnolo's 1620 book.
"Born in Florence the 18th of December 1575 (as recorded in an horoscope generated for his brother by the famous scientist), the education of Michelagnolo was dedicated from the very beginning to his training as a professional musician. At the age of just nine years, in fact, he signed the dedication of a volume of instructional compositions by his father, eloquent as to the type of study he had already undertaken: "...My father having composed the present two-part Counterpoints a few days ago, so that with them (after lessons of greater import that he has given me to study) I could exercise the voice and the playing of the viola with the help of a solo,...." I've asked previously, unsuccessfully, on this list which publication or ms. Mr. Fabris might be refering to. The only duets (contrapunti) I know of, are the ones contained in "Il Fronimo". I know that Mr. Abramovich has had this work of mine for ages, so perhaps he would care to elaborate. BTW, a facsimile of V. Galilei's other great work: "Libro d'intavolatura di liuto nel quale si contengono i passemezzi, le romanesche, i saltarelli, et le gagliarde et altre cose ariose. Ms. Gal 6 (1584) della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze." is available for Euro 49.03 (2000) at SPES. but no "contrapunti" there? This other work is, as New Grove says so eloquently: "Favouring the new major and minor keys over the church modes, which he deplored as a false system, he recognized that equal temperament was the only solution for instrumental tuning. His lute book of 1584 is one of the first music publications to experiment with equal temperament. The book is comprised of 24 groups of dances, clearly related to 12 major and 12 minor keys. His lute was tuned in G and the first group of dances is in G (major). This was possible because of the well-tempered tuning of his instrument." B.R. G. On 8/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > > > I'm looking for a digital edition of V. Galilei's lute duets (all of them, if > possible), in any format. > I've got the music in printed versions, but I'll need to edit a couple of > things, and if I could avoid transcribing everything from 0 it would be > great. I'd really appreciate your help. > Thanks in advance. > Saludos from Seville, > Ariel. > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
