When I was a 17 year old classical guitar student just getting
interested in 16th century music (all of it- madrigals, canzone, ayres,
consorts- not just lute music) I simply started DOING it. I saw that
Thomas Morley's "Cease, Mine Eyes" was written in a nice, balanced 3
voice format that fit perfectly on the guitar with almost zero voicing
problems, and that there was also room for a little cadential filling
out and minor noodling & ornaments, discreet repeating of long held
notes- the whole nine yards.
I didn't even know the word "intabulation" - just saw a piece of music
that would "work" on my instrument, and did it. That's really all anyone
has to do- to be followed up, of course, by the volume sought by Stephen
Arndt for finer details. And, of course, there are all the volumes of
lute intabs. & their originals to compare for voicing, ficta,
elaboration (or not elaboration). I'm still having fun with this stuff-
playing & comparing the same compositions as intabbed by Melchior
Newsidler, Albert de Rippe, Julien Belin, and Simone Molinaro, for example.
Dan
On 2/28/2015 3:06 AM, Reinier de Valk wrote:
Dear Stephen,
Nice to see that more people are interested in intabulations! I have a
scan of this article; I'll send it to you in a private email.
Best wishes,
Reinier
2015-02-28 6:25 GMT+01:00 stephen arndt <[1][email protected]>:
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
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