Many thanks, Arto and David. As you can tell, I am not too familiar with this material. Thank you for your help.
> [Arto wrote:] > I think that could be the place of the "petit reprise", the place where > from you have to repeat the end of the piece. Very common in French > baroque. > I am not 100% sure how that would work in practice. For example, many of the pieces seem to be in an A-B form with a lyric like [1]: Mortels, mettes fin a vos larmes, Calmes vos coeurs ramplis d'allarmes [repeat mark] [petit reprise] Le ciel rit a vos desirs, Et l'air gracieux vous promet mile plaisirs [double bar + two chords] And then there is a second verse of four lines, obviously to be done in the same pattern. Would this mean, in practice, that you would do the first two lines twice (the repeat), then do the next two, add the two chords, and then do those two lines again? Basically, the petite reprise is just a normal repeat? Or am I missing something simple here? [1] This is from "Ballet de la Reyne", from page 15 of de Boesset's tenth book of Airs de Cour of 1621. Interestingly, for me anyway, these pieces all seem to be set for a lute in G, of 7 to 9 courses. And they are quite fun to play, though I am not so sure how well they will sing. One step at a time :) . mark To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
