> Has anyone ever done a study of possible wrong notes in ‘Forlorne Hope?” In
> Alonso Mudarra’s Fantasia, there is, according to Pujol, a comment: ‘There
> are are few false notes but they do not sound bad if played well’. So it may
> be an over reach to assume that unusual sounds may have a high probability of
> being typographical errors.
> This is certainly his famous
Fantasía que contrahaze el arpa en la manera de Ludovico
> and he wants to say that the false relations sound fine if played fast enough.
> There are no "wrong" notes.
Indeed, and it was Mudarra himself who wrote those words concerning "false
notes" in his fantasia.
Mathias
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