Fabulous link! Many thanks, and you do a good job.
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De: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Objet: [LUTE] 17th century continuo practice evidence
A: [email protected]
Date: Jeudi 22 Octobre 2009, 6h27
The Dueben collection at the Uppsala University Library, Sweden, is
one
of
the largest collections of music from (essentially) the second half
of
the 17th century.
There are about 2300 works in manuscripts, and there are vocal and
instrumental
pieces by more than 300 composers. For most of the works we have
the
parts,
and for some we also have the scores (but in German organ
tablature...).
But these manuscripts are what "the old ones" actually played from!
Almost all works have one or more parts for Basso Continuo in form
of
figured base.
There are 40+ works that have a BC part labeled Tiorba (or something
similar), so my guess
is that this is what "the old pluckers" played from.
But there are two works that also have lute tablature, an anonymous
work titled
"Ach Swea Trohn" and one by Buxtehude "Fuerchtet Euch Nicht".
Now to the evidence...
The work "Ach Swea Trohn" was composed for a special occasion (the
death of a Swedish Queen)
and is written for soprano, 2 viola d' amore(actually one of the
earliest pieces specifying that
instrument) and BC. But there are 4 BC parts(one marked Tiorba) + 2
(almost identical) lute tablature
parts for something in d-minor tuning.
I don't think they wrote out parts just for fun, so I think we can
assume that the solists
(soprano + 2 viola d'amore) were "supported by" 6 continuo players
(including one tiorba and two
other lute instruments)! We don't hear the very often today.
The really fun thing is that the whole Dueben collection is being
scanned and made available
on-line. So if you would like to look at the parts for the piece
above, click at
[1][1]http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/presentationSource.php?Select_Dnr
=1705
and you will get a list of all the parts. From there you can go on
to
the individual
manuscript pages. When you have looked at those you can continue
with
the other 30.000 manuscript pages....
The home page of the Dueben collection is
[2][2]http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php
and there are search functions for composer, title, scoring....
If you have comments or questions you can contact me,
I'm currently working on the implementation of the Dueben collection
data base.
Have fun exploring this unique collection!
Jan Johansson
References
1.
[3]http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/presentationSource.php?Select_Dnr=1705
2. [4]http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php
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[5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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References
1. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/presentationSource.php?Select_Dnr=1705
2. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php
3. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/presentationSource.php?Select_Dnr=1705
4. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php
5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
