On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:30:18 +0100, Peter Martin wrote > Thanks for this lead! > > I've just downloaded Laute und Lautenmusik. > > on page 17, taking an example from Neusidler, he suggests that an > quarter note C followed by eighth notes C and D should be interpreted > as a dotted quarter note C followed by an eighth note D. This is > on the grounds that Neusidler hardly ever writes dotted notes. > It's sort of plausible, but is it right? >
I would never play out those repeated notes. Neusidler's and the other early german lute sources rhythmic notation is much closer to the rhythmic notation of lower voices in early german organ tablature. "Dotting" (i.e. punctus additionis) is a concept from mensural notation, hardly applicable to tablature. Playing those repeated notes in intabulations of such polyphonic gems as 'Cecus non judicat ..' from Alexander sound ridiculous to me. Bur some well-known experts seem to dissagree :-) Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
