Hi Arthur and the rest of you! Does any of you know whether or not these continuo notes will be included in the collected works of Weiss. It would be extremly interesting to study them!
Are the lute concertos you are talking about the archlute concertos which might be the works of Giovanni Zamboni? mvh Are Vidar Boye Hansen On Sun, 14 May 2006, Arthur Ness wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > As I indicated, I have held and turned the pages of the actual orchestral > parts from which Weiss played in the opera orchestra in Dresden. They're in > pitch notation, and include solo/obbligato passages for lute. There are even > rehearsal notations in Weiss' own handwriting, so we know it was Weiss who > played them. You really get a wierd feeling when you hold such a treasure in > your hands. It's as if the ghost of Weiss is looking over your shoulder. > Many of the parts are for operas by Adolf Hasse, whose wife Faustina Bordoni > was a famous soprano. And then the toddler and futrure lutenist was probably > around, Johann Adolf Faustinus Weiss. (Weiss must have had tremendous respect > for the pair.) JAFW is thought to have been the lutenist who arranged an > aria from Naumann's opera Cora och Alonzo (1782) for lute and glassharmonica, > a wonderful combination of sounds. > > And Michael, Weiss played from the BASS CLEF when the lute played continuo. > > I recently acquired Xeroxes of three Italian 18th-century lute concertos, > with the lute parts in pitch notation in treble and bass clefs. These are > the concertos from the Harrach collection now in Vienna. There are other > sources, too. > > And part of the problem is the faulty bibliographical control. Tablature > sources are being studied and catalogued in some detail, but lute music in > pitch notation still remains for the most part terra incognita. But the tip > of the ice berg is visible for those who care to look. > > Richard Dyer-Bennet was your mentor? Heavens! What a priviledge that must > have been! (More on your ensemble tomorrow.) > "Andrew Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arthur Ness wrote: > > <<AJN>>Weiss and most professional lutenists read pitch notation as well as > > tablatures > > Arthur< > > I remember in my college days hearing that Weiss was known for being > able to sight read concerto scores, I think it was Jerry Willard my > teacher that told me that. What do you know about this? > > Andrew > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
