I would suggest going back to some of the historical sources such as Le Roy's "Instructions pour le luth" (only the English version survives) or "Il Fronimo" by Galilei which both deal specifically with intabulating vocal works for the lute. Best Matthew
> On Feb 28, 2015, at 8:04, David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I cannot help you with what you'te looking for, but intabulaions have > my special interest and I wrote a number of articles on them. Find them > on my website under Writing': > > [1]http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ > > David > On Saturday, February 28, 2015, stephen arndt > <[2][email protected]> wrote: > > A A Dear Lute Friends, > A A I recently had occasion to compare several lute intabulations > with the > A A vocal original and became very interested in the process of > A A intabulating. While doing a bit of Google searching, I came > across this > A A article: Marie Louise GAP:llner, "On the Process of Lute > Intabulation > A A in the Sixteenth Century," in Ars Iocundissima: Festschrift fA > 1/4r > A A Kurt DorfmA 1/4ller zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Horst Leuchtmann > and Robert > A A MA 1/4nster (Tutzing, 1984), 83 a 96. > A A I have actually found the volume for sale at a not too > expensive price > A A but, since I am interested in just the one article, I was > wondering > A A whether anyone on the list has read it and, if so, could tell > me what > A A it is about. In particular, does it contain any "rules" or > guidelines > A A to help someone learn the art of intabulation? If so, I may > well > A A purchase the volume. (On the other hand, if anyone owns the > volume, I > A A would be happy to compensate him or her for the trouble of > scanning and > A A sending me the relevant pages.) > A A More generally, can anyone recommend an article or a book that > would > A A give helpful suggestions for adapting Renaissance vocal works > for the > A A lute. If someone somewhere has summarized whatever is to be > found in > A A historical sources, that would be wonderful. > A A Just out of curiosity, I tried intabulating a little two-voiced > duet by > A A Orlando di Lasso, first transcribing it note-for-note and then > adding > A A some runs to lengthen the longer notes that cannot be sustained > for > A A their full value on the lute, and I wasn't too displeased with > the > A A results. I would like to try my hand at some further > intabulations, > A A but, rather than learning through trial and error, it would be > nice to > A A profit from whatever instruction already exists. > A A Thank you. > A A Best regards, > A A Stephen Arndt > A A -- > 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. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/
