Thank you very much, Ron.
I might stick at trifles but the drawing shows
the width between 2nd and 3rd is seemingly bigger than the other
"diatessaron (a forth)" width..
http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/76/IMSLP71875-PMLP144099-Robert_Dowland_-_A_Varietie_of_Lute_Lessons.PDF#page=18
And the letters in the bottom have unusual "natural sign" between "b" and
"c".
I referred to Thomas Morley's Scale of Music chart in "Plain and Easy
Introduction"
but could not find the "natural sign" between those two letters.
http://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/b/bc/IMSLP160042-PMLP09691-morley_1597.pdf#page=5
(Besides above two points,
I cannot understand that the interval between 2nd and 3rd is a third.
Isn't it a forth?
I fear I might be making vital mistake..)
Tomoko
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From: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:09 AM
To: "Tomoko Koide" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Disdiatessaron
As you point out, a diatessaron is the interval of a fourth. The
prefix "dis" means "apart" or "reversal". As we know, the interval
between the second and third strings (Smale meane and Great meane) is
an interval of a third. Someone else may offer a better answer but I
assume that Besard, Dowland, or whomever compiled the tuning chart
meant to describe a fourth minus one, or a third.
RA
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:34:59 +0900
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [LUTE] Disdiatessaron
>
> Dear Collective wisdom,
>
> I am perusing the diagram at the end of the chapter "Of tuning the
lute" of
> "Other necessary observations" by John Dowland and found
> the interval between Smale meane and Great meane is "disdiatessaron"
not
> "diatessaron"
> as seen between Treble-Smale meane, Contratenore-Tenor and
Tenor-Base.
>
> Could anyone help me with clarifying the reason?
>
> I am not quite sure of the term for "disdiatessaron" either...
("Octave
> plus perfect fourth"??)
>
> regards,
>
> Tomoko
>
>
>
>
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