On the contrary, I would say that making the materials you have work, to the best of your understanding and skill, is highly authentic performance practice. Whichever approach best suits your taste and available skills would be the best road, in my opinion.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:40 AM, David van Ooijen <[1][email protected]> wrote: I play it in concerts. I play from a continuo bass. Btw. Valerius was not in the position to pay a proofreader because Valerius was dead by the time his book was published. David On 20 May 2013 09:55, Stathis Skandalidis <[2][email protected]> wrote: > Dear lute wisdom, > has anybody tried so far to > reconstruct/perform Verstandige, handige (pp.212-213) from Adriaen > Valerius's Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck as a lute song? Valerius gives > as a source the 'Engels Prins Daphne', which is no other than Robert > Johnson's famous Almain and provides lute and cittern tablature > accompaniment which simply doesn't fit with the given melody part in > notation. There are many obvious mistakes and points where melody, > bars, harmony (you make your pick!) simply clash and serious editing > decisions have to be made. So, the question that arrises is if in such > cases we should try to make an acceptable version of Valerius > Verstandige with a lot of editing or is it better to play Johnson's > Almain and try to fit the Dutch text over it? In any case authenticity > is gone, but since Valerius didn't want to pay a proofreader as the > plethora of mistakes in Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck reveal, I have to > make a choise and your valuable opinions are mostly welcome. > Thank you all in advance > Stathis > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [4][email protected] [5]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/
