Dear Gilbert,
Thanks - you've alerted me to something which I should have made
explicit, but which I mistakenly left unsaid. Margaret Board (and
Dowland) used a dot (to the left of the note) to mean a shake, instead
of the more usual # .
I did say that sometimes scribes substituted a dot for one or other of
the signs, but having presented these pieces from Board I should really
have explained it more clearly.
In Board (also Mace and various lyra viol manuscripts) the dot means a
shake, the cross means a fall. This is clear from the contexts in which
the signs occur. In most other English lute sources, the # means a
shake and the + means a fall. The only qualification needed here is
that when I say "Board" I mean the pieces actually written by her and
Dowland - there are other hands at work in her book which don't follow
the same convention.
I hope that makes it clear.
Best wishes,
Martin
P.S. Right hand fingering is represented by dots *under* the note, one
dot for first finger, two dots for middle finger, three for ring finger.
Gilbert Isbin wrote:
Dear Martin,
I read your very interesting essay on ornaments at the Dowland site.
One thing I don't understand is the left dot before the note. It's
defenitely an ornament. I can hear it on the mp3 files. Is this dot
written because the ornament is used with open strings ? It's not
clear to me what the difference is between a cross or + and this dot
Thanks
Gilbert
http://users.pandora.be/gilbert.isbin/lutecompositions.html
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