I heartily concur ! Good job indeed and congratulations to the Uppsala University Library for this wonderful work.
Jean-Marie == En réponse au message du 22-10-2009, 09:25:27 == > > Fabulous link! Many thanks, and you do a good job. > --- En date de : Jeu 22.10.09, [email protected] <[email protected]> a > ecrit : > > 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 > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Mail vous offre la meilleure protection > possible contre les messages non sollicites > http://mail.yahoo.fr Yahoo! Mail -- > >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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > ========================================
