I'm sure I need to to review my notes but I don't remember Dowland using a dot ornament in the holograph sources; Can you refresh my memory as to where he uses it?
Much appreciated. dt At 12:17 PM 7/11/2008, you wrote: >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 >> >> >> >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus >>Database: 270.4.7/1545 - Release Date: 10/07/2008 18:43 >> > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
