I suppose I would have made it easier for everyone, particularly Reinier de Valk, if I'd asked the actual question I'm trying to answer, which is whether Milan's tablature can correctly be called "unique."
On May 7, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: > There are four short pieces for the four-course guitar in Barberiis' > _Libro Decimo_ (venice, 1549). The pieces are described as > "Fantasie per > sonar sopra la Chitara da sette corde". The tablature for all the lute > pieces in the book is Italian, but it is Spanish/ Milan tablature for > the guitar pieces. Thus dispatching "unique." -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
