At 02:42 PM 6/12/2006, Sandy Hackney wrote: > >An organist friend of mine mentioned the above named piece in the context of >early transcriptions, claiming that Willi Apel had made various statements >about it that were later shown to be "incorrect" due to scordatura errors.
Yes, many years ago Michael Morrow published an article in which he argued convincingly that the typesetter, a non-lutenist, had misread the handwriting of the person who wrote the piece out. Apparently in German script of the time the 2 letters (t and r?) were very similar. Changing that one tablature letter resolved all the problems and caused the "early exercise in bitonality" to vanish from history. Some of us think the printed German tablature letters are hard to tell apart. . . . Caroline **************************************** Caroline Usher DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155, Room B343 LSRC Mailing address: Box 91000, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
