The lecture and interpretation of Newsidler's instructions for the scordatura of the Judentanz is very tricky because it's a real syntax problem. The discussions with the specialists gave an other idea: Go to the music - and then back to the really unclear text!
I made a transcription of the two tuning solutions (Apel and Podolski) and IMHO it's clear that from the musical point of view the Podolski solution is the only possible one. There are string changes in the melody - and on the second string the proposed "bitonality" (Apel) is no longer persecuted. That is strange. And there are meaningless tone repetitions in the string changes. Compare here: http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Autoren/Schlegel/Judentanz/Judentanz.html http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/DownloadD/files/Judentanz_News.pdf So I think that the Judentanz tunings of Newsidler and Heckel (Leyrer zug) are basically the same - perhaps with the difference of the splitted (Newsidler) or not splitted (Heckel) 4th course. The instruction of Newsidler can be read in Podolski's way, if we assume that the octave string of the 4th course is the same string type as the 1st course: "die Ebrer quint saitten" is then not the 1st course, but the octave string of the 4th course. The octave of the 4th course is above the normal quint saitten - it room dimensions. Andreas To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
