> Really interesting. I'll have a look at flat tuning and see what I can make of it.
Do you happen to know the Fronimo software? Transcripts from one tuning to the other are really easy. Two clicks, and there you are. > When you mention the awkward stretch in measure 8 - would that be the 8th bar of the second section where there's a stretch from 7th fret (third sting) to 4th fret (fourth string) followed by 7th fret first sting? No, sorry, I was talking about first section, measure 9 ----e----r'-a-r---a' -r- ----a-----------a------ ----b------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ///a Which In flat tuning (F5D5B4G4D4A3 | G3F3E3D3C3B2) turns into ----e----r'-a-r---a' -r- ----a-----------a------ ----a------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ///a > I get around that one by doing a half barre with my little finger at the 7th fret - and it works for me. The stretch is very awkward for me if I try to use my third (ring) finger for the 7th fret (third string) and I can't really get it to sound clearly with the 4th fret (4th string) stopped with my first finger. Hope that makes sense! It does, and I understand that your hand are smaller than mine. With flat tuning, that measure become more feasible: -------h----g-e----r---- ------------------------- ----g-----e---r--------- ------------------------- ----f-------------d----r- ------------------------- A bit less difficult IMO. Best wishes, Mathias > 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
