Dear Stewart: I think Rainer hit the mark. I believe Robinson is referring to the 'long', which appears square or rectangular in shape and can be doubled in time. My reading is that when one encounters static time that cannot be sustained with a plucked string, usually a a point of cadence, passionate but tasteful division is required for the lute to make sense of the close. Best wishes, Ron Andrico www.mignarda.com > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:58:05 +0100 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Squares in a Treble > > In The Schoole of Musicke (London, 1603), Thomas Robinson writes about > ornamentation as follows: > > > " Now you shall have a generall rule to grace it, as with pashionate > play, and relishing it: and note that the longer the time is of a > single stroke, that the more neede it hath of a relish, for a relish > will help, both to grace it, and also it helps to continue the sound of > the note his full time: but in a quicke time a little touch or jerke > will serue, and that onely with the most strongest finger. Passionate > play is to runne some part of the squares in a Treble (that is foure > and foure) first loud, then soft, and so in a decorum, now louder, now > softer, (not in extremitie of either) but as companie of other > instruments, or farnesse off giveth occasion...." > > > Please could someone explain the meaning of "Passionate play is to > runne some part of the squares in a Treble (that is foure and foure)"? > > > Stewart McCoy. > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html __________________________________________________________________
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