Come to think over it, the lute duet versions do start with the III, though not in all variations. And in the Folia one can indeed find the Romanesca, if you skip the first four measures of the phrases...
Stephan Am 15 Oct 2008 um 9:44 hat Stephan Olbertz geschrieben: > Yes, to my ears the first part is a PA (in triple time), the second is a R. > People tend to assert things or repeat plain hearsay. Like the Folia being somekind of R or > PA.... > > Regards, > > Stephan > > Am 14 Oct 2008 um 22:55 hat David Tayler geschrieben: > > > I see in several online sources, including the ever dubious > > wikipedia, that it is listed as a romanesca. Am I missing something > > or isn't it more similar in many of the the lute settings to the > > Passemezzo Antico? > > That is, it starts on "I" not "III" > > > > > > > > ==At 12:31 PM 10/13/2008, you wrote: > > >At 03:21 PM 10/13/2008, David Tayler wrote: > > > >Lucky to get at him before the eating binge. > > > >BTW, Henry VIII didn't write pastime either. > > > > > >That would upset Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull who recorded an instrumental > > >version of the tune as "King Henry's Madrigal." > > > > > >Eugene > > > > > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > --
