Pun appreciated. Chris.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Ron Andrico <[1][email protected]> wrote: Hello Nancy: I'm glad you like the courante, which is a favorite. Besard did not seem to be interested in notating ornaments - one imagines he was too busy being a physician, lawyer and collector/publisher of too much music. English ms. sources from this period (circa 1615-20) seem to have more in the way of written-out ornaments but the manuscripts were mostly teaching tools, weren't they? I suppose ornaments from the M.L. book apply, since they reflect what was au courante. The sparsely notated ornaments found in Vallet's books would certainly apply. Best wishes, Ron Andrico [2]www.mignarda.com > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:05:50 -0800 > To: [3][email protected]; [4][email protected] > From: [5][email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: A courante > > What a nice piece! What's the consensus on ornaments for this type of > piece? WOuld it have been decorated like the ML Lutebook? > Nancy > > Things being a little slow on the lute list, I thought I would > offer an > interesting courante from Besard, 1617. This source, originally > engraved in copper and rather messy in appearance, has a rich > combination of very interesting music. The ensemble pieces are > rife > with errors and reconstruction is a thankless task, since it's > difficult to sort out the spicy dissonances from what is just > plain > poor composing. The third section of the book has some fine > music > scattered throughout, and the fine courante by Sieur de la Barre > is a > favorite. Written for 8-course lute, the high positions are not > impossible to manage and the piece is a pleasure to play. > You will find the courante at the top of the list on our page of > downloads [1][1] [6]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html > Enjoy. > Ron & Donna > [2][7]www.mignarda.com -- > References > Visible links > 1. [3][8]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html > Hidden links: > 2. [4][9]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5][10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > Nancy Carlin Associates > P.O. Box 6499 > Concord, CA 94524 USA > phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 > web sites - [6][11]www.nancycarlinassociates.com > [7][12]www.groundsanddivisions.info > Representing: > FROM WALES - Crasdant & Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - Jez Lowe & Jez > Lowe & The Bad Pennies, and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The Venere > Lute Quartet, The Good Pennyworths & Morrongiello & Young > Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA > web site - [8][13]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org > -- > > References > > 1. [14]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html%A0 > 2. [15]http://www.mignarda.com/ > 3. [16]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html > 4. [17]http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html > 5. [18]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 6. [19]http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ > 7. [20]http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ > 8. [21]http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/ > -- -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.mignarda.com/ 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html 7. http://www.mignarda.com/ 8. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html 9. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 11. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 12. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 13. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/ 14. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html%A0 15. http://www.mignarda.com/ 16. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html 17. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html 18. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 19. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 20. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 21. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/
