Ouch, Mellii, yes!, another one. David - rewriting Besard |-(
On 16 August 2011 17:28, Martin Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote: > It reminds me of the lute duets by P.P. Melii. In spite of the fact that > Melii was a well-regarded professional musician, the duets seem completely > garbled. One could recompose them, but it would be easier to start from > scratch. > > Martin > > On 16/08/2011 16:14, David van Ooijen wrote: >> >> Once more I've turned my attention to the lute duets from Besard's >> 1617 publication. What happened here? Unequal lengths of the two >> parts, false relations al over the place, the literature writes about >> polychords (D major in one part, G-major in another), simultaneous >> cadenses in different keys, need I go on? We all like the occasional >> spicy dissonance, and for some it cannot be spicy enough, but this ... >> Let me quote Julia Sutton from her article 'The Music of J. B. >> Besard's "Novus Partus", 1617' (Journal of the American Musicological >> Society, Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer, 1966): "While it may be that some >> unusual dissonances were intended by Besard, we may well be forced to >> conclude that a combination of serious typographical errors and poor >> writing renders some of these works unplayable." I know how to fix it: >> rewrite it, and some of you send me their fixes when I last asked >> about Besard last year (was it?). But looking at the music, it begs >> the question: why? Why so many errors and/or poor writing, why bother >> to publish it? Is there a theory out there, someone? >> >> David >> > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
