I am working on some (father and daughters') Caccini songs. Sometimes they use the figure #3 and sometimes just #. In Le Nuove Musiche (1601/1602) it appears the rule is #3 if preceeded by 4. To distinguish from 11 #10, presumably. And just # when it's a chord that has to have a major third. In Nuove Musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle (1614) I fail to see consistency in this rule. Daughter Francesca in her Libro Primo (1618) seems to be following the rule I would tentatively distill from Le Nuove Musiche: 4 #3 to prescribe melodic suspension/release, to distinguish from 11 #10 in the other octave. And just # to mark a major third in the chord.
Any thoughts on this? I will check with Einstein and Freiberg in a minute, but am hoping for more recent studies and players' points of view. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
