Hi, Sean - Donna here, with my sixty four cents' worth. According to the 1611 Florio's, a 'pistrina' is a bake-house or mill, and a 'pistrinaro' is a miller, or baker. 'Pistrinara' doesn't merit a mention, but you can probably figure it out. > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:57:26 -0700 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Saltarello secondo della Duchessa and La Pistrinara > > > I've been spending a little time in the Intabulatura di Lauto del > [FdM] et PPBorrono, Libro secondo, 1546, Venice and I'm curious about > the first "suite". La Duchessa is the 2nd of 3 saltarellos that follow > La Borroncina (a self reference to PPB? eg, Il Gorzanis) and also > appears in the Pacaloni trios. The passemezo and other saltarellos are > loose variations on it giving me the idea that it may be a signature > dance piece for PPB. > > Any further information on the piece (or book) would be appreciated. > Any idea who "la Duchessa" may be? > > An unexpected link from Pacaloni to the LeRoy guitar books surfaced in > the Saltarello, La Pistrinara. It appears to be a reworking of the > guitar song O combien est (Certon) and the melody is carried in the > Superius. As usual for Pacaloni, the chords are a little off but it > possibly argues for the Pacaloni Superius to be an A lute --or G lute > if we tune our guitars to G. This would argue for Stewart's suggestion > of a "low" trio for Pacaloni. > > Speaking of the "low" tuning, recently we've been playing Pacaloni as > duos w/ a bass cittern tuned to C for the Bassus parts and the > Superius on a G lute. Very impressive and a big sound for only two of > us! I get the feeling from the flavor of the dances that PPB is > somewhat connected to it despite Pac's late date. Any ideas on that? > > And the $.64 question: What is a "la pistrinara"? > > many thanks in advance, > Sean > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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