Hello Monica: Besard's 1617 book was rather inelegantly engraved. He may have used the services of a chimpanzee, which explains a great deal. Ron Andrico > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:42:40 +0100 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard duets once more > > 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? > > I am not very familiar with this particular source but it doesn't surprise > me that it is apparently a mess. I can think of a number of baroque guitar > tablatures which are pretty useless. Have you ever looked at Pesori?. > And then there is Dalza. > Have you read Martin shepherd's article "Was Dalza really weird?" > > There are fairly obvious practical reasons why there might be a large number > of > printing errors. As far as the music is concerned it seems Besard was not > a professional musician. A bad case of vanity publishing. Is the book > engraved or printed from type? > > Monica > > > > > -- > > ******************************* > > David van Ooijen > > [email protected] > > www.davidvanooijen.nl > > ******************************* > > > > > > > > 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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