Dear Nancy, I generally much prefer a facsimile of the original print or MS and sometimes wonder how the recent desire to put things into a modern uniform tablature edition has gained ground. In particular, the use of hand or engraving allowed and allows a more flexible approach in spacing etc which can better suggest interpretation and, in my view, usually makes reading easier. . Admittedly, with some originals the quality can be poor and difficult to read and, in these cases, I think a modern edition (employing tablature and spacings as close as possible to the original) is, indeed, perhaps the answer. However, collections such as that of 1638 by Pierre Gaultier Orleanois are, in my view, perfectly readable - my own photocopy of a microfilm print has a few background shadings but these could be cleaned up electronically I suspect to a condition closer to that when the collection was first printed. In short, players should feel encouraged to play direct from such rather than modern printed editions which impose a uniform and Procrustean style favoured by the modern editor. Martyn Hodgson
On Friday, 20 December 2019, 20:14:25 GMT, Nancy Carlin <lsaq.edi...@gmail.com> wrote: The LSA has just finished publishing all of Doug Towne's edition of Weiss's London manuscript and we plan to publish next Pierre Gaultier's Les Ouvres 1638 and Francois Richard's Airs de Cour, 1637 - also in editions made by Doug. We are looking for someone to write a short introductions to these 2 collections of music - where they fit into the world of lute music, etc. We are also looking for a couple of more people to write CD reviews. If you are interested in doing any of this please email me. Nancy Carlin -- Nancy Carlin Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA [1]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org PO Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA 925 / 686-5800 www.groundsanddivisions.info www.nancycarlinassociates.com To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
