Hi! I've been checking up the information on Dentice and octave stringing to be found in Adrian Le Roy "A briefe and plaine Instruction..." London 1574, using the CNRS edition, as I don't have a full facsimile. The info is on p36 of Vol 1, which states that it refers to f.41v of the original. He says:
"in the .23 distaunce of this song Du corps absent, we have to shewe the reader, that in place of an .F. In the laste minim of that measure, in the second example of the same song, garnished with runnyng poincte,ye shall finde the same .F. Chaunged into .D. With a double passage, kepying the fall, whiche was corrupted in .F. Neverthelesse the Tune self of the same .F. Is found in the same compainie, and eight of the greate fift stryng: which reason could not be in Lutes, tuned after the manner of Fabrice Dentice the Italian, and other his followers. Where those strynges that satnde twoo and twoo together, bee sette in one Tune and not by eightes, which thei do for a perfection of harmonie, in avoiding many unissons, which those eight would cause." My questions are- 1. Is there a clear explanation of this anywhere that I can look up? If not... 2. I understand Le Roy is saying that Dentice used a unison 5th course, not just a unison 4th. Is this right? 3. Is anyone who has access to the CNRS edition able to tell me which bar in volume 2 of that edition Le Roy is referring to with the bit about the ".23 distaunce". No doubt it would all become clear if I had a facsimile.... With many thanks Martin To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
