To expand on Ralf's comments and to complement Elam Rotem's video, there is an
interesting section on notation and the various types of keyboard tablature in
Alexander Silbiger's book 'Keyboard Music before 1700', published by Routledge
(pages 2-8).
Best,
Matthew
Le 8 oct. 2018 à 00:44, Ralf
- "music for keyboard was NOT notated in tablature." As others have already
remarked, keyboard
music was notated in tablature - but what easily gets neglected is the
fact that 16th century keyboard
music was only notated in tablature,
You are joking, aren't you?
only we don't
Oops, yes, I forgot Cabezon.
Of course, it is remarkable that both Paumann and Cabezon were blind.
So their tablature systems may have nothing to do with technology or typography
but with their blindness.
Does anybody personally know any blind musician?
How on earth did Walcha manage to learn
(sorry to send it twice, Rainer, but once more for the greater list)
I would suggest the article by Crawford Young in Vol. 52 #1 of the LSA
Quarterly:
"Tablature before 1400? Reflections on Lute-specific notation and
Boethian roots"
Sean
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On Sun, Oct 7, 2018
From: Ron Andrico
>Date: 10/7/18 2:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
>To: Lute net +
>Subject: [LUTE] Re: The origins of tablature
>
> Rainer:
> Like most who examine the origins of tablature, you overlooked the
>fact
> that Conrad Paumann, cre
Date: 10/7/18 2:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Lute net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The origins of tablature
Rainer:
Like most who examine the origins of tablature, you overlooked the
fact
that Conrad Paumann, credited for having invented tablature, was
primarily a keyboardist. My
This is untrue. There were other types of keyboard tablature, such as the
Spanish tablature used by Cabezón in which the staff comprised as many lines as
there were voices (the duos only having two lines, for example) and the notes
were indicated with numbers 1 to 7, to which signs were added
