Dear Arthur, dear Rainer, dear list,
I've asked a friend who is a keyboardist and has done research in sources which
contain music by Hammerschmidt and others. He confirms that the appearance of
the writing points to a Breslau/Wroclaw provenience and suggests looking for
the Hammerschmidt pieces in emblematic musical prints (of Hammerschmidt, I add
here). The Scheidt piece (nr. 80) is from SSWV 55 (from Ludi musici I), he
thinks. The source itself is not new to him, but until now he only knew it from
the SSWB: PL-Wru 60417 Muz.
I find the mixture of olde and newe here interesting. It is a bit like in
German lute manuscripts of the early to mid seventeenth century, where late
sixteenth-century music mixes with later baroque pieces.
Best
Joachim
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Betreff: [LUTE] Re: A little known manuscript
Datum: 2018-05-27T22:40:42+0200
Von: "Joachim Lüdtke" <jo.lued...@t-online.de>
An: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Dear Rainer,
I didn't know this keyboard book – thank you for your mail and the link. What a
pity that they scanned an old microfilm and not the original. I seems a pretty
ms.!
Best wishes,
Joachim
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Betreff: [LUTE] A little known manuscript
Datum: 2018-05-25T17:07:52+0200
Von: "Rainer" <rads.bera_g...@t-online.de>
An: "Lute net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Dear lute netters,
John Robinson told me about a manuscript With new German organ tablature:
http://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=18797
I have not found anything about it in JSTOR or Oxford Journals. Nothing on
Google except an article about a different MS that mentions the name.
The MS seems to contain a few concordances for well known pieces for lute. The
very first piece is "Paduan Lachrime", There is a Durette and Phillips' famous
pavan(?).
The second piece is "Galliarda Gregorii" (Huwet?).
On the other hand there are several pieces by Andreas Hammerschmidt who was
born in 1611 or 1612 and hence belongs to a generation 50 years after Dowland.
Piece 116 is "Aria Langsam" Langsam is German "slowly". This is remarkable -
since it is in German.
Piece 115 has the title "Balletta geschwindt" - geschwind = fast.
On folio 26 appears "Largo".
Last page: Perhaps the MS was called 40935 before the war.
Apparently it once belonged to Robert Weigelt in Breslau, possibly the painter
and photographer (1815-1879).
This seems to be an interesting manuscript.
Does anybody know anything about it?
Could somebody who can read new German organ tablature fluently check the
pieces I have mentioned above against possible lute concordances?
Best wishes,
Rainer
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