Dear Stuart,
One of the better mandora/gallichon sources (date around 1750).
Regarding ornaments, can you tell me (piece number, bar, beat) which
signs you're unsure about? Generally this MS uses the common signs:
comma after a tablature letter = upper appoggiatura or/upper trill;
semi-circle under a letter = lower appoggiatura (frequently on the
second chord of a cadence and quite long as the style by mid 18th C)
By the way, there are a few concordances with other mandora/gallichon
MSs, including: Dresden Brescianello, Donaueschingen 1272;
Note that the tablature needs amending in some pieces (possibly copyist
errors), eg
- No 165 (a little gem): line 2 bar 1 first beat needs amending to r d
(on second) a (on first) and d (on fourth);
- whole 30 bar missing line 5 between bar 2 and 3 - just follow the
bass progression down
Martyn
--- On Fri, 7/10/11, Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
From: Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Subject: [LUTE] Menuet for Mandora (Brussels MS 5.619)
To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Friday, 7 October, 2011, 22:28
I bought the Brussels mandora book (MS5.619) a long time ago and every
so often have looked through the pieces on a six-string guitar or Ren
lute (with the third course up a semitone). Lots of short dances and
many are quite similar to one another. I can't find anything more
specific than 1700-1750 (!) as a date.
I've been looking through it again, now with the Lute Society's mandora
on loan. There are lots of little errors knocking about and I just
can't figure out what some of the ornament signs are meant to mean.
There are lots of minuets preceding trios - so presumably it's
minuet-trio-minuet? (the full minuet with repeats?). This doesn't seem
particularly convincing.(Like a meal with a large first course, then a
dessert, and then another large main course again)
Anyway here's a minuet, without the following trio. I think it has
quite a push to it and reminds me of Logy's guitar music.
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaQTcWPAnbU
Stuart
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