A longa is indeed four and four in much 17th c music, although it can also hold other values.
dt At 05:14 AM 4/4/2009, you wrote: > 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 > __________________________________________________________________ > > Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with > Internet Explorer 8. [1]Download FREE now! -- > >References > > 1. > http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN55C0701A
