Arthur,
Do you agree with his statements about Spinacino?
I'm a little uncomfortable about the dismissiveness towards this work.
Stanley Boorman's Ottaviano Petrucci: catalogue raisonné outlined
the unusual history of these early books and noted that the scale of
production was quite small--in fact, the Spinacino book had a list of
subscribers and probably a run much smaller than later lute books. To
say that Petrucci abandoned printing lute tablature because of all the
errors ignores the fact that he did continue to print lute tablatures
(another Spinacino book, the lost Giovanni Maria Alemani, Dalza,
Bossinensis). It also ignores the fact that these are some of the most
beautifully printed of all the early lute books, from an aesthetic
standpoint, without the awkward lines of movable staff blocks seen in
later prints.
His comments do a disservice at least to Petrucci, if not to Spinacino
as well, who after all was an amateur. Sure there are errors, but there
are errors in every printed lute tablature out there (and most of the
manuscript ones). And I wonder if some of the "errors" are problems
with interpretation of the tablature and with a lack of knowledge of
the lute. I don't find them "obviously corrupt" or "disastrous"--at
least not to a level I would call "often"--in any case.
Just my 2c,
Gary
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Arthur Ness
<[1]arthurjn...@verizon.net> wrote:
It is an interesting quest, to seek relations between keyboard
and
lute music.
One of the most eminent organists of the day was Julio (Giulio)
Segni
da Modena--mentioned often in Glen Wilson CD notes.
He was first organist at St. Mark's Basilica, and is said to have
published over 50 keyboard/ensemble ricercars.
Alas, only 11 survive to this day in their original mensural
notation.
In one source, **Musica Nova** of 1540 (modern edition by Colin
Slim)
only
the bass part exists. Some of the lost works survive in
intabulations
for lute. But Segni's name is often omitted.
One instance is the Domenico Bianchini tablature of 1546. The
first
two ricercars are intabulations of Segni's work,
not original lute works by Bianchini (as is usually thought).
And
Bianchini? He was professionally a mosaicist. Working where?
Together with Segni at St. Mark's: one on a scaffold, the other
down
below at the organ.
In 1548, Giovanni Maria da Crema published a dozen Segni
ricercars
intabulated for lute, eleven which are among the lost pieces. .
Arthur Ness
[2]arthurjn...@verizon.net
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Subject: [LUTE] Interesting perspective on Spinacino & Petrucci
In a set of notes for a harpsichord recording :
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Particularly the 8^th paragraph, dealing with track 1.
Daniel Heiman
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