Ron, Rainer and All,
Cabezon's works were notated in tablature. Like Paumann, he was blind.
His works were advertised as also playable on harp or vihuela.
Jim Stimson
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From: Ron Andrico <[email protected]>
Date: 10/7/18 2:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Lute net <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The origins of tablature
Rainer:
Like most who examine the origins of tablature, you overlooked the
fact
that Conrad Paumann, credited for having invented tablature, was
primarily a keyboardist. My understanding is that the application
tablature to the lute was secondary. And the purpose for tablature
was
not so that lutenists could play polyphonic music (they already did
that from memory), but so that a full score of music could be
condensed
from several partbooks onto one staff and that the musical
information
could be more easily accessed. When we view tablature as a
simplified
way of notating music solely for performance, we undermine the
usefulness of tablature as a reservoir of information that can only
be
effectively realized by a musician who possesses a firm grasp on
performing polyphonic music with a clear sense of line. This is not
a
theory but a fact. Bach used tablature when he ran out of space at
the
bottom of the page.
RA
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on
behalf
of Rainer <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2018 4:58 PM
To: Lute net
Subject: [LUTE] The origins of tablature
Dear lute netters,
I have often asked myselfe why lute tablature was invented.
The "classical" answer seems to be because lutenists started to play
polyphonic music (or at least music with more than one voice).
This seems to be a very poor argument since - apart from German
organ
tablature - music for keyboard was NOT notated in tablature.
Any ideas anybody?
Rainer
I seem to remember that MANY years ago somebody claimed to have
found
14th century French lute tablature which was refuted soon.
But hasn't this been discussed again recently?
Somewhere else (where?) somebody mentioned that tablature may have
been
used much earlier in Arabian countries.
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