I have made a pdf of the facsimile and the part of Apel's book that deals with it, including Apel's transcription of the opening of the piece. All in German! Those who want can send me an email.
David **************************** David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl **************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Hackney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: [LUTE] Der Juden Tanz - Neusiedler > > 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. > In HAM, the piece is #105b and Apel does say that it is "...one of the > most remarkable specimens of 16th century music. Shrill dissonances, > otherwise unheard of before 20th century music...an extremely realistic > picture (of what one might ask?), not lacking a touch of satire." > > 1) I can't find the original tablature, and 2) I thought that most lute > pieces used the "standard" tuning so is scordatura in play? But, Appel > does say in his "Dictionary" under scordatura that the piece uses a tuning > of A-e-e-b-e'-g#. > > Who of our resident experts, e.g., Stewart McCoy, might help me here? > Many thanks. > Sandy > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
