Dear David,
I have read everything I could find over the years on
Renaissance lute music, and I don't recollect having seen
a study of the sort you describe, although I imagine there
is much that I have missed. I think it would be a very
interesting area to investigate, regardless of what's been done
in the past. We would learn some interesting things from it,
but it might be hard to predict at this point what they would be.
I recently edited the Fantasia by Marco Dall'Aquila from
the Phalese 'Hortus Musarum' of 1552 and encountered
exactly the sort of issues you describe. It seems highly
likely that Phalese took this piece from Casteliono's
'Intabolatura de Leuto de Diversi Autori' of 1536
('Fantasia de M. Marco da Laquila' (no. 17, ff. 57r - 59r) as
he also includes in 'Hortus Musarum' the well known fantasia
by Pietro Paulo Borrono from the same volume (no. 11, ff. 33r - 34v).
But there are differences in the two settings of the Marco piece - Phalese,
for
example, presents the piece with four minims to the bar, whilst Casteliono
has two.
And there are other minor differences in the readings, although Phalese
does copy a mistake which occurs in the sixth bar from the end of the
Casteliono version in his own copy. (This error can be corrected with
reference to the version of the piece in Munich Ms. 266.) As far as I know
there are no other known printed sources that Phalese could have taken
the piece from (although it does occur in Hans Gerle's 'Eyn Newes sehr
Künstlichs Lautenbuch' of 1552, the same year as 'Hortus Musarum,' but
this seems unlikely source). So does this prove that Phalese had access to
a copy of Casteliono's book? It seems very likely, but the fact that he, or
his editors, seem to have felt free to make minor changes, makes it hard
to prove.
I hope you do some more work on this - I would certainly be interested
to know what could be learned from it.
Best wishes,
Denys
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From: "David van Ooijen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Phalèse's bookshelf
Dear Arthur
> But I made the list you are thinking about for my
> "Sources of Lute Music" article in New Grove (but it was
> cut due to space limitations). These are the short
> titles to save me some typing (all except one in Brown).
It looks much like the Brown-list, yes. But that list doesn't tell us
everything. When Phalèse includes a piece in his 1563 book, includes it
again in his 1568 book, and they both look pretty much the same, we might
safely assume he copied the 1568 inclusion from the 1563 version he already
had. But the first appearance is the same, according to Brown, as it
appeared in at least two previous books by different publishers. If you take
the trouble to compare these versions, you will find small and perhaps even
great, differences. Due to copy errors, or some different divisions or
ficta, due to the whim of the editor. Brown still calls all these versions
the same. Carefull studt might reveal the lineage and tell us which of those
two books Phalèse used. I'm doing this now with just one piece, and it
reveals much that Brown doesn't mention, couldn't mention in the scope of
his book, which is just a list. If it would be done with _all_ the pieces of
Phalèse, we might get a pretty conclusive answers to what was on his
bookshelves.
So I wondered, did anybody ever do something like this before?
David
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