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$2800 is not bad. The latest Weiss volume (vol.
10) from Barenreiter is $1100 from Sheet Music Plus.
Lubrano has surely become one of the leading U.S. music antiquarians.
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From: "howard posner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Are Pistoys prone to rot according to Mace?
On Nov 27, 2012, at 10:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
The word "decay" reappears several times in the technical part of Music's
Monument, always in conjunction with the word "rottenness". This can't be
coincidental.
You may be right about Mace using "rottenness" in the modern sense of
"decomposition of organic material," but in the 1600's "decay" was not
that specific in meaning. It could mean any deterioration or decline.
A flood would decay when its waters ebbed.
Pepys wrote in 15 May 1663 that "the Dutch decay [in the East Indies]
exceedingly."
The King James Bible (1611) uses decay to indicate a person's financial or
civic decline: "If thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with
thee." (Leviticus 25:35).
In Ben Jonson's play Catline (I'm not kidding) Act II scene 2, a character
says "She has beene a fine Ladie, And, yet, she dresses herselfe, (except
you Madame) One of the best in Rome: and paints, and hides Her decayes
very well."
It appears that "decay" in Mace's time was less likely to convey the sense
of decomposing than "rot" itself was.
The obvious question is: if Mace had wanted to convey the sense of
decomposing, moldering, festering gut strings unequivocally, was there a
better word than "rotten"? The obvious answer is: I don't know.
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