Dear Stewart and all, This title block with a left handed lute and a flute opposite was much used by the Ballard printing firm in the 1630s. especially for these collections of airs spirituels, a very popular genre encouraged by the Contre-Réforme in France. There are quite a few books of those by Macé, Aux Cousteaux and Berthod mainly, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has dozens of them. Some, including Berthod’s, are to be found on Gallica and can be downloaded from there.
Best, Jean-Marie > Le 2 févr. 2020 à 00:40, Stewart McCoy <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Thanks, Rainer. Much appreciated. > > There are some other interesting books to be found at the same library. If > you click on "Rechercher" and do a search for "luth", you'll find more > tablature with a copy of Piccinini. There is also an interesting looking > collection of songs by Chancy. Most intriguing are three song collections > (in one volume) by François Berthod, who flourished in the 1650s. He took > songs by well-known French composers, and replaced their words with a > spiritual text. There is a brief Wiki article about him. On the title page of > his books there is a left-handed lute-player with a six-string (single > courses) lute. All the songs are for two voices - treble and bass - with both > parts texted. There are no figures for the bass part, yet a chordal > accompaniment on a lute or theorbo should nevertheless be possible. > > I would be interested to know what the songs are, to which Berthod set his > spiritual text. There is no way of knowing from Berthod's collection, and > although the library mentions composers like Bacilly and Le Camus, they don't > seem to say who wrote which songs, and what the original words were. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart. > > -----Original Message----- From: Rainer > Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2020 4:09 PM > To: Lute net > Subject: [LUTE] Ballard 1612 > > https://mazarinum.bibliotheque-mazarine.fr/ark:/61562/mz3446 > > Click under "Télécharger" > > Rainer > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
