> I'vev been doing a little checking up on Tombeau de Mezangeau and it's > attributed to Ennemond "Vieux" Gaultier rather than Denis - his younger > cousin.
No argument about this. Denis took care of both his own and his cousin's music in this edition. "... on se plaint que les copies des pieces de Luth que Jay composé et que les copies des celes que Mr. Gaultier Sieur de Neve mon cousin a faites, se trouvent fort alterées ... Jay crû estre obligé des les faire graver pour les representer au Naturel" (people complain that the lute music that I and my cousin composed, is very much altered in copies. So I felt I was obliged to have them engraved so as to represent them in their natural form). > It was Denis who supervised publication of the 'Livre de > Tablature pour Lut . . . .' in which it appears, but this was published > in 1672, over 20 years after the death of Ennemond. And more than 40 years after Ennemond retired from service and public. Food for thoughts. If you transcribe the tablature of the Tombeau for French flat tuning, this whole pavan will lie more comfortably in your hands. An awkward stretch like in measure 8 disappears, and IMO the whole piece is more organic. My sneaking suspicion is that Ennemond's music was so charming that people transcribed it for the new tunings of the day, that way smuggling quite a few mistakes into the staves. There is an allemande by Ennemond twice in D-Rou xvii-54. Once in d-minor tuning, the other in French flat tuning. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
