Dear lute lovers,
What are your opinions about the beginning of Francesco da Milano - Fantasia Ness 33 regarding the note value of the first note of the first motif? My thoughts at the moment are that maybe it happened like this: Francesco wrote the piece without bar lines. When they tried to print it with bar lines it was not possible or not common to print only an upbeat / a bar of half length. So they changed the rhythm to a very common pattern so the motif could now fit into one bar. Could that be possible? Maybe that happened with other pieces as well? Or maybe Francesco "had to" compose it like this because no piece like a fantasia or ricercar would start with an upbeat? Best wishes, Susanne -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
