- "music for keyboard was NOT notated in tablature." As others have already
remarked, keyboard
music was notated in tablature - but what easily gets neglected is the
fact that 16th century keyboard
music was only notated in tablature,
You are joking, aren't you?
only we don't recoginize it as such since the italian keyboard tablature
evolved into modern scores.
According to Apel (admittedly a bit old) There was no "Italian keyboard
tablature".
Calling something tablature doesn't make it a tablature:
"The notation on two staves was called in Italy 'intavolatura,' a name which
occurs already in the second-oldest source of Italian organ music, that is,
the Intavolatura cioe recercari canzoni himni magnificati (Venice, 1542) of
Hieronimo di Marcantonio da Bologna (i.e., Girolamo Cavazzoni, the son of
Marcantonio da Bologna). For this reason the notation under discussion is
frequently referred to in modern writings as the Italian organ tablature, …"
Rainer
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