There is a Lute Society (GBR) ed. of all the Matelart duets + the known Francesco duets by Gordon Gregory 1997 ISBN 0 905655 08 7
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:29 AM Subject: [LUTE] Matelart Fantasia Terza > Dear Joachim, > > Thanks for your reply. I hadn't realised that SPES had re-issued the > facsimile, using the Paris copy instead of the one at Bologna. > Presumably they thought that the Paris copy was cleaner and easier > to read without all the manuscript additions. > > There are many tiny crosses throughout the book, which look as if > they were printed, and are probably the same in your facsimile. > These are the familiar crosses used as hold signs, and they don't > present a problem. > > The signs I want to know more about are very much bigger, anything > from 4 mm to 6 mm tall, and always appear above the stave. I cannot > see any consistent reason for putting them where they are, or why > these large crosses sometimes have two or three horizontal lines. I > wondered at first if they indicated a mistake, like the # signs in > the Cambridge lute manuscripts, which Rainer aus dem Spring showed > were for mistakes, yet there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with > the music at these points. I also wondered if they could be for > left-hand fingering, to show a barré, to mark the new entry of a > voice, or to correct a barline, but with all these ideas, there is > nothing consistent. Stephen Fryer has suggested that they might be > ornament signs, and Peter Danner thinks they might be rhythm signs > corrected, but neither of these suggestions are convincing. > > The reproduction of the facsimile is not awfully > good. Many of these large crosses are clearly visible, but others > are less easy to make out. There may even be some which have > vanished completely from the facsimile. > > Unfortunately my scanner doesn't work any more. I'll ask a friend to > help, or send you a photocopy of a page or two via snail mail. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "lute-list (Renaissance)" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:00 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Matelart Fantasia Terza > > >> Dear Stewart, >> at first I was puzzled by your mail until I realized that my copy > of the >> SPES-facsimile of the Matelart book is from the second printing > (1984) >> of Archivum Musicum 10 which was made from the Paris copy of the >> original print - and this is free from manuscript barlines and > diverse >> forms of crosses. From what you write one might receive the > impression >> that a former owner of the Bologna copy added grace signs but not > having >> seen it this remains speculation. Could you scan a page or part of > a >> page containing some samples? >> I would not change bars 20 to 23 ... >> Best wishes, >> Joachim > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
