Dear Arthur Ness,
Thank you very much for the details about this book.
It's very good feeling to have music which was considered lost...
Maybe the second book is also somewhere in a private library rotting
slowly... [03.gif]
I am also very interested about Kapsi's vocal music. Recently I made a
concert with villanellas, arias and Nigra Sum (one of his mottets) The
music is not very innovative but more like "inspired by the moment". I
have the feeling that he was compsing the music with a therbo or a
guitar in his hand (like modern pop-rock song composers...).
Kapsi is a cool composer in my opinion.
--- On Thu, 5/31/12, A. J. Ness <[email protected]> wrote:
From: A. J. Ness <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LUTE] A special request (Kapsberger)
To: "hera caius" <[email protected]>, "Lute List"
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 12:41 AM
Dear Caius,
For Kapsberger's third book of chitarone music, there is only one copy
known, and it lacks the pages you ask about. That
copy was in the magnificent Berlin library of Werner Wolffheim which
went on
the auction block in 193?. A private individual in Bologna acquired
that
copy. For years the book was known only from its listing in the
auction catalogue.
In 2001 several lute tablatures were announced for auction by
Sotheby's.
Yale wanted a German tablature for their rare book collection (they had
no
examples of German tablature), and so gathered up monies to purchase a
Heckel tablature which was in the sale. Yale got lucky. The price on
the
Heckel was driven beyond their budget. (It's the most unexciting book
of
lute music ever<g>; and ten copies are known to exist.) So they
reconnoitered and decided on the Kapsberger
third chitarone book. Little did they know that it was the copy from
Bologna, the only one known to exist. What a coup! For all of us,
because
its purchase by Yale finally made that Kapsberger volume available to
everyone.
And our Diego Cantalupi had his own coup. He made the first recording
of
its music (a fine one, too!). AND the Yale library permitted him to
include a facsimile of the
entire print in his CD.
[1]http://www.mvcremona.it/CDKapsbergeEngl.html
This just tends to illustrate how ephemeral is the lute repertory. One
copy of a
book that was surely issued in several hundred copies. From a court
case, we know Dowland's third book of ayres was printed in 1250
copies. Less than a dozen survive. u.s.w.
Arthur.
----- Original Message ----- From: "hera caius"
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To: <[3][email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:44 AM
Subject: [LUTE] A special request
> Hello,
> I have played some of the music from the Kapsberger third book for
> theorbo. This book I received from somebody but it some of the
pages
> are missing...so it starts at page 9 (in the original numbering. It
> would be so perfect if somebody can provide me the pages 1 to 8 (I
> guess there are two toccatas) in pdf or jpg. Thanks in advance.
> Caius Hera
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References
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