Update.
I've made a video of four of the pieces, and added James' info
regarding the online scores:
[1]http://robmackillop.net/lute/the-art-of-music/
Cheers,
Rob
On 26 April 2014 09:18, Rob MacKillop <[2]robmackil...@gmail.com>
wrote:
A A James, this is brilliant. Thank you! I'll place a link on my
website.A
A A It's funny - I did my initial work on it back in 1996 from a copy
of
A A Maynard's dissertation held in Edinburgh University library, and
A A recorded it the same year for a CD that came out the following
year.
A A But I haven't given it any thought since then until this week, and
it
A A has been fun to rediscover the music. I'll be making a video of
four of
A A the pieces later this morning on a 7c.A
A A Hopefully more people will take a look at exploring this rather
quirky
A A manuscript, and at its suitability for playing on the lute.
A A Rob
A A On 26 April 2014 09:02, James Kimbel <[1][3]jimkim...@gmail.com>
wrote:
A A A Many thanks to Rob MacKillop for intabulating several beautiful
A A A pieces
A A A from the Anonymous Scottish Manuscript BM Add ms 4911 ("The Art
of
A A A Music"), and many more thanks to him for putting his
intabulations
A A A online.
A A A In his edition, Rob mentions the PhD. thesis where he got the
A A A transcriptions:
A A A Judson Dana Maynard, "An anonymous Scottish treatise on music
from
A A A the
A A A sixteenth century, British Museum, Additional Manuscript 4911,
A A A edition
A A A and commentary," 2 vols. (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana
University,
A A A 1961)
A A A I was thinking about ordering a copy of the dissertation to
make
A A A more
A A A intabulations when I discovered that the text of the manuscript
and
A A A many of its musical examples are online for free at:
A A A Texts on Music in English
A A A [2][4]http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/16th/16th.html
A A A Just scroll down to SCOTA3B1 TEXT for the first part of the
A A A manuscript
A A A and then there's SCOTA3B2 TEXT, SCOTA3B3 TEXT, & SCOTA3B4 TEXT
for
A A A the
A A A rest of it.
A A A From what I've read so far, much of the manuscript is a tutor
on
A A A "descant," that is, improvising over (and/or under) a cantus
firmus,
A A A a
A A A necessary skill for singers of sacred music. After the descant
A A A section
A A A there is a tutor for "faburden," another necessary skill for
A A A singers.
A A A The text is 16th Century Scottish/Latin and not TOO difficult
to
A A A understand, although a translation would be useful. The musical
A A A examples are small GIFs in modern notation, and since they give
A A A credit
A A A to Maynard's thesis, are presumably his. In some of them the
staff
A A A lines don't reproduce, but there's enough there with staff
lines for
A A A more intabulations. Since there are quite a few pieces that
could be
A A A intabulated, I'll probably order the dissertation to get a
larger,
A A A somewhat clearer copy. It's a great find. Thank you again, Rob.
A A A (While you're on the TME page, scroll down further and you'll
find
A A A the
A A A text and musical examples from Thomas Morley: A Plaine and
Easie
A A A Introduction to Practicall Musicke.)
A A A To get on or off this list see list information at
A A A [3][5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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References
A A 1. mailto:[6]jimkim...@gmail.com
A A 2. [7]http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/16th/16th.html
A A 3. [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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References
1. http://robmackillop.net/lute/the-art-of-music/
2. mailto:robmackil...@gmail.com
3. mailto:jimkim...@gmail.com
4. http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/16th/16th.html
5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
6. mailto:jimkim...@gmail.com
7. http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/16th/16th.html
8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
