Thanks for checking those. I am getting the 1574 pieces so you info will be useful as I make my first attempts at German tab. Your hunches about the spots I cited are useful, although I disagree about a lack of 12th frets in Neusidler. There are many in the 1566 collections (all labeled 'XI').
>I've looked up the 1574 edition, but it doesn't contain >rececari, and the passemezzo La Milensa must be a different >piece as it doesn't contain the given measure. > >My interest was to see how 11th or 12th frets would be written >in German tablature. The 10th fret on 1st course 9 with a dash >above it. Notes on the 11th and 12th frets would have to be >letters with double dashes above them. I ran through the >entire book but couldn't find any of them. > > >As for the measure from Recercar Terzo, XI could be a typo. >Could be XII, could just as well be X. I for one would opt for X. > >XI in the measure from Pass'e mezo La Milanese does certainly >not mean XII. Could be XI, indeed, could just as well be X. >I'd opt for X again, considering XI a typo, because I couldn't >find 11th or 12th frets at all with Newsidler. > >Mathias > >"Richard Yates" <[email protected]> schrieb: >> Perhaps it was overlooked in the surge of new threads, or maybe my >> question was just an uninteresting one with an obvious solution, but >> any response to the example I found below about the mysterious >> Melchior eleventh fret would be much appreciated. RY >> >> >I ran across another spot that confounds the question of >the eleventh >> >fret and its notation. In the Pass'e mezo Milanese there is a 'XI' >> >symbol on the second course. It sounds to me like it should >be played >> >on the eleventh fret in contrast to other places (e.g. Recercar >> >Terzo) where 'XI' seems to mean twelfth (i.e. octave) fret. Can >> >anyone unravel this one? >> > >> >Check the graphic of both spots at >> > http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Neusidler.jpg >> > >> >Richard Yates >> >> >> >>Presumably he didn't have an 11th fret, so his 11th fret is our >> >>12th, if you see what I mean. :-) >> > >> > >> >>>Why does M. Neusidler (Intabolatura di Liuto, 1566) uses the >> >symbol 'X' >> >>>for the tenth fret but 'XI' for notes that would normally >be on the >> >twelfth >> >>>fret? >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > >-- >Viele Grüße > >Mathias Rösel > >http://mathiasroesel.livejournal.com >http://www.myspace.com/mathiasroesel >http://de.geocities.com/mathiasroesel > >
