Dear Martin: I found the Francesco Castelfranco duet listed as tablature sheet C 420 - at least I think it's 420, since the last digit is blurred. Thanks for your wonderful Francesco site. Well done, as usual. Best wishes, Ron Andrico www.mignarda.com > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:25:43 +0100 > To: arthurjn...@verizon.net > CC: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: mar...@luteshop.co.uk > Subject: [LUTE] Re: New web page > > Dear Arthur, > > Thanks for your appreciation, and I look forward to your comments. > > The Castelfranco duet was indeed published by the Lute Soc but I can't > find it - it would help if I knew which issue of Lute News it was in, as > I have them all (somewhere!). > > The story about Julian Bream is interesting - thanks for passing it on. > > Best wishes, > > Martin > > Arthur Ness wrote: > > >Dear Martin! > > > >What a wonderful page! Congratulations, and (of course) thank you for > >the nice words. I've been making a few notes, and will send some > >comments privately. I say "comments," because there is little on your > >Francesco page with which I would take issue. > > > >As for the third duet about which G. Crona inquired, it has been > >published by the Lute Society (UK). > >It must be listed in that section about "free music" on their web > >site. It also is in an article on the Castelfranco MS by <first > >name??> Rossi in Venice. (I have the citation in a message I recently > >sent to a composer in Italy. I'll send it on to you, since it > >contains more information about that manuscript that you may wish to > >see.) > > > >By the way, I'm so pleased you resisted calling grand staff > >transcriptions of lute music "keyboard." This is terminology created > >in the guitar world, and is inaccurate when applied to lute music. > >The harp and marimba, for example, use the grand staff, but their > >notation is not called "keyboard." The grand staff has long been the > >accepted way to write down lute music in pitch notation. The false > >terminology causes the uninitaited to believe the transcripions are > >adaptations for keyboard. > > > >That Bream recording really did put Francesco on the map. (I suspect > >he was one of the referees who approved my edition for pubication.) > >The HUP edition became the Press's "best seller," and outsold books of > >music > >by better known compsers like Leclaire, Holborne, Sammartini and > >Scarlatti. > > > >All of the Francesco works that Bream selected appear in > >English sources, although he did use my edition. (That recording is > >still available on CD.) He said, in > >a published interview, that he often couldn't fully understand > >Francesco's music until he saw my transcriptions. This is mainly > >because some guitarists didn't understand the use of barlines in lute > >tablatures. Their transcriptions should carry the meter sign of > >1/1.<g> > > > >On that CD, Bream considered those English ballad variations as > >"settings" (as in a piece of jewelry) for > >Francesco's "gems." > >=====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== > > My Web Page: Scores > >http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ > > Other Matters: > >http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ > >http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/musexx/ > >=================================== > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Martin Shepherd" <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> > >To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > >Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:31 AM > >Subject: [LUTE] Re: New web page > > > > > >| Dear Goeran, > >| > >| I can't find my copy, I think it was in Lute News about 3-4 years > >ago. > >| > >| Can anyone fill in the missing details? > >| > >| M > >| > >| G. Crona wrote: > >| > ??? (recently discovered) > >| > > >| > Martin, please!!! You must know about this one > >| > > >| > G. > >| > >| > >| > >| 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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