Tiorba player's snobbery I suspect!
MH
--- On Fri, 3/9/10, wikla <[email protected]> wrote:
From: wikla <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Castaldi
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Friday, 3 September, 2010, 21:28
Thanks for your thanks Ron!
There in the same preface (actually "postface") is also something that
could perhaps interest our baroque guitarists? Castaldi also says
something
interesting about the guitar alphabet:
"Please do not turn up Your nose just because the Author, being
perfectly
able to do it, did not put the A.B.C. of the Spanish Guitar above every
Air. He [the Author] would have done it, as is in the current style, if
he
had not seen that such a Pedantry is just useless for those who can
only
flip through and that thanks to the above mentiond Hieroglyphic
countless
errors are made in the cadences. Who knows [how to do it] does not need
to
be taught."
Translation comes from my (ancient) page
[1]http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
as the previous.
Best,
Arto
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:48:18 +0000, Ron Andrico
<[2][email protected]>
wrote:
> Dear Arto:
> Thank you very much for that quote translated into English.
> Best,
> RA
> www.mignarda.com
> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:14:50 +0300
> > To: [3][email protected]
> > CC: [4][email protected]
> > From: [5][email protected]
> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Castaldi
> >
> > Dear Mathias and the List,
> >
> > in that book there are songs with continuo bass. So no
instrumental
> music
> > or tabulature. Of course there is the most proper continuo
> instrument.
> > Bellerofonte is holding that in the picture, of course.
> > And the music is good!
> >
> > BTW this is the just the book with the famous reasoning against
> > countertenors/castrati:
> >
> > "And because [the pieces] handle either the love or the anger
the
> lover
> > feels to the loved one, [the music] is represented in the tenor
clef,
> where
> > the intervals are proper, and natural to be told[!] by a male;
it
> appears
> > to the author to be a thing to be laughed at, when a man, with a
> voice of
> > woman, expresses his reasons, and asks for pity in 'falsetto',
> to/from his
> > loved one."
> >
> > Years ago I wrote a small "article" on that preface, see
> > [6]http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Arto
> >
> > On 03 Sep 2010 11:11 GMT, ""Mathias Roesel""
> <[7][email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > S.P.E.S. offer two publications by Belloferonte Castaldi.
Besides
> the
> > > well-known Capricci a due stromenti (Modena 1622), there is
> another:
> > >
> > > B. Castaldi, Primo mazzetto di fiori musicalmente colti dal
> giardino
> > > Bellerofonteo, Venezia 1623
> > >
> > > Does someone know if the second also contains music for the
> theorbo?
> >
> >
> >
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References
1. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
2. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
3. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
4. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
5. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
6. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
7. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
