I'm not sure what you mean by Standard. The most common and most often seen is French Tab. Consists of six line representing the six main courses on the Lute, the top line representing the first course and so on. The notation is designatied by letters designating what strings are to be stoped, "a" being the desginated string open and so on up the alphabet to "m" or "n" depending------Italian Tab. is completely upside down from French Tab, except they both have a six line staff for the same reason. Bottom line is the first course and read bottom to top if you are using the fitst course as a refference point. Instead of letters numbers are use and "0" is an open course or string. These are the two major forms of Tableture. There are two more, German which I cannot read without a refference chart, and Spanish Tab which should be called Luis Milan tab as he seems to be the only musician to use it that I know of. It uses the same letter system as French Tab, letters, but the sring orientation as Italian Tab, the bottom line being the first course.
Most modern editions you find in print will use French Tab unless they are facsimile editions in which case they are basically photo copies of the original old print or manuscript. I hops in some way I have provided you with the answers you were looking for. Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTE-LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: [LUTE] Standard tablature > Is there a modern "standard" for tablature, which lutenists would expect in > a modern practical edition, or is it preferable to for such an edition to > reproduce the type of notation found in the source? Can one easily get used > to reversing the order of the strings, in particular? > > Thanks, > > Dennis > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
