We just did a whole program of pieces here from the collection--it is great music. I am very curious if you come across any evidence for the bowed instrument in Buxtehude because we did several of the cantatas on 5 string cello, which was very popular in the 17th century, in my research I did not find very many examples with clear indications for the obbligato and bass parts.
Best wishes, and thanks for the collection--someof the cantus firmus settings are amazing! dt At 11:27 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: > 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]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]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. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/presentationSource.php?Select_Dnr=1705 > 2. http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
