I understand these as 'French' 1st and 2nd endings, where the second ending is written first, and the first ending written last. You find these a lot in French Baroque. Very confusing when sight reading chamber music, as there's always some poor soul getting lost (usually me, to the merriment of the others), espcially when these endings are combined with 'petite resprises'. David
******************************* David van Ooijen [1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* On 21 January 2018 at 13:08, Rainer <[3]rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> wrote: Dear lute netters, I wonder what Vallet's intention in "L'Espagnolle", page 80, Secret des Muses I was. It is not at all clear how interpret the double bar lines, the half notes at the end of both strains and the repeat sign. Obviously Andre Souris had no idea either - he reproduced the piece as it appears in the original. The scribe of the Kassel lute book (Monbuyssant? or Elisabeth?) 99v simply ignores the double bar lines and changes the first half note to a dotted half note. This is certainly plausible. He should have changed the second half note, too. Any ideas, anybody? Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:davidvanooi...@gmail.com 2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 3. mailto:rads.bera_g...@t-online.de 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html