On Jul 30, 2018, at 5:12 AM, Ralf Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2018 16:43 CEST, Ed Durbrow <edurb...@gmail.com> schrieb: > >> Im giving a talk on the lute next week and I was searching for a statistic >> about how much of the Renaissance lute repertoire consist of intabulations. >> Also, I am looking for statistics (estimates really) of how many tabs there >> are and could have been and how many songs with in tabulation there are. >> Ive heard that outside of the piano and possibly violin there is more lute >> music than for any other instrument. I want to back that up. If you could >> point me to some research or quotes somewhere on the Internet, I would be >> much obliged. > > Your talk is in one week? Sounds like: > > https://i.redd.it/n8i4oh04h4cz.jpg Ha, ha. That is my usual method. Actually, Ive given talks before but it has been a while and the audience will be musicians so I want to polish it up. > More serious: there can't be any such data - not only did only a rather small > sample of music survive the > turmoils of time, we have no idea how representative of the music played back > then our surviving material is. There can only be estimates of what was. However, of the known pieces that exist in museums and such, it is possible to classify and count the numbers of dances, intabulations and freely composed pieces. Someone must have hazarded a guess. Ive heard some of the guesses. I just cant remember the number (was it half or 1/3) and I want to see it in writing. Maybe Ill wait until the day before :-) Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
