Bernardo Monzino is Francesco's brother. Dinko Fabris rejects the possibility that he might be B.M. due to chronology. Instead he ingeniously proposes Paolo Biemme (BM=Biemme). He also had Florentine associations, whereas Monzino was almost entirely in Rome or Milan. But Biemme was a professional lutenist, and if B.M. is the Florentine Gentleman, and an amateur, the possibilities are endless. But those duets are quite polished, so whoever B.M. was, he/she was a skilled composer.
In the ASiena Lute Book I though B,M might be Benedetto Moretti, amember of a long succession of lutenists activein Siena. By the way, I did not give that manuscript its name. "Lute Book found in Siena" is the name on the modern binding. But the watermark has an ensigne of the city of Siena, further confirming its Siennese originas. Are those duets also in the Robert Dowland book of 1610? I don't have time to look. Off to see Ansel Adams at the MFA. I'm going to ask about the "Bambino" guitar they own, belonging formerly to Madame Robert Sidney Pratten. But I'll report on it in the guitar list. They have had over 100 messages on that thread. ajn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathias R=F6sel" To: Lutelist Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:37 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: V. Galilei "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I'm off. Talk to you all later. Oh I see Arto found them. They are at the very end. Also there are other duets with Italian titles on fols. 23-27. But Ariel probably means the contrapuncti. Yes, Galilei says that B.M. is a Florentine Gentleman. Don't remember exactly whence I got it, but I guess, it was G=F8ran who once posted the tab pieces of Galilei's Fronimo. Anyway, BM might be Bernardo Monzino of Florence (my copy has question marks at that, though). Cheers, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
