Dear Arthur,
thank you very much for your interesting information.
Although Mrs. Poulton warns about the misbounding of the Sulzbachius
print at the end of his tutor, where she lists the sources, it is nice
that you comment it here, so that everybody is warned.
In her tutor this piece appears in modern typesetting, it is not a
reproduction from the facsimile. But she neither corrects the obvious
errors present in the original (the most prominent one is in measure 37:
a g major chord appears with note c instead of note b in the third
course), nor at least warns about them.
In your double stave transcription those errors appear amended! It is
highly useful, therefore, consulting your edition, the HUP one.
Saludos from Barcelona,
Manolo Laguillo
Arthur Ness wrote:
> Dear Manolo,
>
> That's No. 14 in the HUP edition. (begins: I:1
> II:4/III:4 II:1 |) A different version.
> I didn't know that Mrs. Poulton knew about the Naples
> print. Neapolitan
> tablature makes some people very angry. It's so near,
> yet so far from their experiences with Italian
> tablature, if they've learned to read it. I find it
> interesting, Manolo, that you seem to thrive with it.
>
> At first some people didn't understand how to read it,
> and were playing it upside down. "I thought it sounded
> strange when I played it."<g>
>
> Now, I have the SULZBACHIUS CAVEAT to send you (again?).
>
> There is the Minkoff facsimile of the Sulzbachius print.
> The unique original copy now in Paris is misbound. It's
> in two books. Book 1 is Italian tablature, Book 2,
> Neapolitan. The
> last folios (fol. 29-32) were exchanged. So fol. 29-32
> in book two belong with book 1, and folios 29-32 in book
> 1 belong with book 2. It's rather clear because book 1
> is in Italian tablature, and book 2 is in Neapolitan.
>
> Mrs. Minkoff's first printing has the misplaced
> gatherings. Claude Chavel and I noticed what happened,
> and we provided her with a preface and index that she
> published in a revised facsimile ("Edition revue et
> corrigée"). The revised
> facsimile has an index that provides the Ness and
> Chiesa numbers for all of the pieces. The gatherings
> are in their proper position.
>
> There are some different versions for some of the
> pieces, but otherwise there's nothing new, except for
> Ness No. 95. I did not
> have access to the Sulzbachius print, which was
> discovered (I knew such a print existed at one time)
> when the HUP was in press. Forunately, the Sulzbachius
> Neapolitan
> tablature was recopied in Italian tablature in Paris,
> Rés 429. And so all the pieces are in the HUP edition.
> Except for the first half of No. 95. Pages were removed
> from the Paris
> manuscript, so I only had the second half.
> The Sulzbachuis print has the complete No. 95 (book 2,
> folios 21-22v).
>
> ajn.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manolo Laguillo"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "LUTELIST" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 6:15 PM
> Subject: [LUTE] Francesco da Milano in Poulton's Tutor
> (no. 34)
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> item no. 34 in Poulton's tutor (page 50) is a
>> 'Recercata di Francesco
>> Milanese', fols. 30v-31 from the Libro Secondo,
>> Intavolatura de viola
>> ovvero lauto (Naples, 1536).
>>
>> As Diana Poulton explains,
>>
>> "it is printed in the very rare form of tablature
>> known as 'Intavolatura
>> alla Napolitana': the stave is the same way up as in
>> French tablature
>> but the open course is numbered 1 and all other frets
>> are, therefore,
>> one number higher than in ordinary Italian tablature."
>>
>> Poulton wants that we do a little mental exercise, and
>> prints it in that
>> form. Curiously enough, I find more easily the right
>> finger combination
>> from that 'tablatura napolitana' than from the regular
>> one.
>>
>> And now to my question: which item is it in the Ness
>> edition? I really
>> can't find it there...
>>
>> Thank you very much, and saludos from Barcelona,
>>
>> Manolo Laguillo
>>
>>
>> PS It is a beautiful piece, BTW...
>>
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