Dear collective wisdom, I am looking for a tablature of the piece labeled "Cas[s]andra" in Pietro Paolo Raimondo's Libro de sonate diverse (1601), does somebody have it? It is played here by Massimo Marchese: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3HorZEAsOc And here by Nicolae Szekely: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA20nI_p1hk This is obviously a concordance of the "Branle couppA(c) nommA(c) Cassandre" as published in the OrchA(c)sographie of Thoinot Arbeau (1589:73v-74) which is also the base of the French song "Vive Henri IV". Yvonne Kendall has missed Raimondo's Casandra in her 2013 detailed edition of Arbeau concordances, where she included only Cassandre from Le TrA(c)sor d'OrphA(c)e of Antoine Francisque (1600). While Francisque's version is extremely elaborate, Raimondo's version in the youtube recordings is much closer to Arbeau's basic melody. If somebody is interested, I can provide some non-lute concordances too: "La Cassandra" in SE-VACURxjAP:SB, fol.147v (violin manuscript), early 18th century "Mon ptit coeur gauche", drinking song with staff notation in Christophe Ballard (1717): La ClA(c) des chansonniers, ou recueil des vaudevilles depuis cent ans & plus..., Paris, p.236-237. "Cedons aux coups de l'Amour le plus doux", dance song with staff notation in Christophe Ballard (1724): Les Rondes, Chansons A Danser, tome II, p.192. In case of interest I have also collected numerous lyrics to this melody. The earliest are in French, and attributed to Pierre de Ronsard. Some later songs to this timbre are in Dutch (Vinkkel 1655) and three in Swedish (Carl Michael Bellman 1788, 1789 and 1790). ... Oh, and this will probably be the most modern lyrics - composed by GaA<<l Liardon some years ago: [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2fLkLkh2o Best wishes from Sweden Josef Berger
-- References 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3HorZEAsOc 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA20nI_p1hk 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB2fLkLkh2o To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
