I'll try to summarise later. But in one manuscript (and now I can't
remember where--me too, Dan), I saw an explanation that is somewhat
like your description, David. That is, that XI is Fret X + another
fret. In the manuscript there are signs for the 11th and 12th frets,
and in the faintest and thinest pen nib, someone wrote an
"explanation"
above each. The 11th fret was !i and the 12th was !ii. The i's are
short lines, the ! a longer line. The Italian tablature ciphers were
"h" and "d" (dodici?), which appear rather frequently in soures I am
familiar with. The "h" may be the "n" that Richard saw in the
Molinaro tablature.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tayler" <[email protected]>
To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Melchior Neusidler
|I see the XI as meaning "a note above X"
| It would have been immediately obvious to the player what note was
called for.
| If that's the case, these aren't typos but shorthand; ealy notation
| always has an element of shorthand.
|
| Also, the tab does not refer to a half-step; the half step ideogram
| is a "placeholder" for the note.
| Otherwise, you would not have ficta, a situation that would have
| would have been absolutely impossible for a trained renaissance
musician.
| dt
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