[LUTE] Re: Transposing lute tablature on sight

2011-12-07 Thread Ed Durbrow
Thanks for this tip. Is there any transposed version of lover and lass on the web? On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: The aim of my message was simply to make people aware, if they were not already, that "It was a lover and his lass" is much easier to pla

[LUTE] Re: Transposing lute tablature on sight

2011-12-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:44 PM, David Tayler wrote: > What you "see" when you look at tab is a very interesting question. > After looking at upside down tab for a while, your mind turns it > around, just as our eye inverts images through its lens. > When we see patterns that we have seen before

[LUTE] Transposin​g lute tablature on sight

2011-12-07 Thread Martin Grayson
It is pretty clear that viol players in Spain, including King Phillip the 2nd, played viol consorts from Cabezon's tablature and there is some written evidence but I am afraid I have lost where it comes from. There might be something cited in the Cabezon collected editions on the Pet