--- Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

Actually, that's backwards.  Milan uses the "Italian"
numbers, but arranges them the same as in French tab,
with the top line representing the top course.  In
other words, Milan's tab is exactly the same as modern
guitar tab.  (I wonder why more modern guitarists
don't just play their pavans straight from the
original?  They'd find out that Luis actually wrote
more than six pieces.)

As for myself, I've never understood what the trouble
with Italian tab is.  Its just a physical
re-adjustment of the cyphers.  I can easily read
consecutive pieces in French or Italian tab from
different sources and not even realize I've been doing
so until I think about it.

German tab is another matter... I really wish I could
read the stuff in musical time!  I wish someone would
come out with a graded tutor dedicated to learning
this notation step by step.


CW



> ----- 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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