Rotta uses dots to indicate non use of the thumb, as can be seen with the broken chords elsewhere in the same pieces. In the Minkoff reprint the dance pieces you refer to are entitled Gairda and Padouana respectively. Obviously the key to a convincing performance is to be very familiar with the dance rhythms involved and this in turn can help with the choice of right-hand fingering and technique. This advice comes from someone who has two left feet and so avoids the dance floor like the plague... Best, Matthew
> On Aug 4, 2018, at 1:15, Sean Smith <lutesm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Antonio Rota in his first book has a Saltarelo and Piva in the Dm > Antico dance cycle that includes the passage (more or less similar in > each) > I2 0.2.3.5.7.I > I3 2.3.5.7.8.I etc. > It may not be clear above but it's a run of thirds where each cipher > has a dot following. The passage continues into the 2nd and third > courses and the initial downbeat in each measure is undotted. Is he > suggesting both notes are > a) played with the index > b) some non-thumb finger > c) something else? brushed? strummed? two-note dedillo? lighter? > AR is quite liberal in his right-of-cipher dottage in this print while > the Gardane print (same year) strips them all away. > AR also uses dots beside rootless chords on off-beats, including > non-adjacent strings. I'm suspecting the innocuous dot may have other > meanings beside "index finger here" but I'm not sure what. Suggestions? > Speculation? > Here is the facsimile link to the book [with thanks to Jo Bringmann]. > The passages are on 13v and 15r. > [1]http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0007/bsb00071965/images/index.ht > ml?id=00071965&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=26 > Sean > > -- > > References > > 1. > http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0007/bsb00071965/images/index.html?id=00071965&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=26 > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
