Dear Stewart > Unfortunately I don't have the 4-part score to hand, but I do have > an intabulation by Bakfark in the same key. I have compared the > first 20 bars of the Newsidler and Bakfark versions one above the
It's what I am doing: comparing Arcadelt's four part madrigal with the intabulations by Da Milano, De Rippe, Bakfark, M. Neusidler, Ochsenkun, and whatever else I can lay my hands on. So far I have done Da Milano, De Rippe (what a difference!), Bakfark and Melchior. Da Milano has hardly anything more than just the notes of the madrigal, De Rippe and Bakfark add quite a lot, but do not always have cadences at the same places. Not to mention obvious differences in ficta. Melchior is deviating much from the original, half way he even skips half a bar of Arcadelt, misaligning with the rest (a bother to get that right on the page...), and interestingly he adds much melodic interest in the bass. In doing so he forces his intabulation into other harmonies, or so it seems at first glance. It will take more study to say something more definite. Comparing these intabulations, I have the impression they could be arrangements of Da Milano's version, rather than intabulations of Arcadelt. Actually, I should see Vindella's intabulation, printed in 1546 by Gardane. Da Milano is from 1547 (also Gardane). I only have the Minkoff facsimile of 1562, is it the same?. Arcadelt was printed by Gardane in 1541, I haven't seen a facsimile yet of that either. Just like the comparisson of the Malheur me bat, it is interesting te see if printing errors in the vocal parts are taken over in the intabulations; perhaps we can trace the originals the intabulators worked from. That is one of the reasons to do the comparison. > The only mistake I can find so far, is the second rhythm sign of the > piece. It should be a dotted crotchet, not a quaver. Perhaps the > type-setter read the dot as an extra tail on the flag. It is dotted. See bar 18, (if you count the double bar 13 in the facsimile as two bars) and 42 for similar places. The rhythm signs are printed seperately, the bottom flag is almost attached to the stem: it's a dot! It's the only way to make these measures add up. > correctly. There is a lack of consistency in the appearance of the > cyphers, which adds an extra level of difficulty. Knowing from > another source what they should be, can help reading what they are > in Newsidler's setting. Göran send me his Fronimo version (thank you Göran!). That helped a lot in clearing up some questions I had. For now I am happy with the Neusidler, I will look at Jobin (1572) next. yours David ***************************************** David van Ooijen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/ ***************************************** To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
