Thanks to all who responded. I'll have enough to chat my way through
the concert coming Sunday.
Espeically Juan Pablo's story is good, as the theme of my concert will
be 'Spanish Music in Flemish Sources and Flemish Music in Spanish
Sources - Music from Phalése and Narváez' on lute and vihuela.
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:39:08 +0100, David van Ooijen wrote
Thanks to all who responded. I'll have enough to chat my way through
the concert coming Sunday.
Espeically Juan Pablo's story is good,
Yes, in the category of: Se non è vero, è ben trovato. ...
But, since that saying is supposed to come
.Baxa/Baja in Spanish
can refer to the bass part.
Monica
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Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Baxa de contrapunto
Baxa/Baja in Spanish can refer to the bass part.
Are you sure of this, Monica? I'd rather think of a baxa danza, rather to the
part.
In Spanish you'd say commonly contrabaxo for the bass part...
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Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Baxa de contrapunto
Baxa/Baja in Spanish can refer to the bass part.
Are you sure of this, Monica? I'd rather think of a baxa danza, rather to
the part.
In Spanish you'd say commonly contrabaxo for the bass part...
It's actually baxo - Sanz refers to the bass
I don't think it has anything to do with the Netherlands in spite of the
good story.
Saddly, you are probably right.
The whole phrase is
Baxa de contra punto el canto llano lleva el tiple, es de octavo tono.
which I think translates
Bass of the counterpoint. The treble part
carries the
Baxa= baja= low. Low dance
In this title of Narvaez' piece, what does 'baxa' mean?
David
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:26:22 +0100, David van Ooijen wrote
In this title of Narvaez' piece, what does 'baxa' mean?
Low as in 'Basse danse'.
HTH Ralf Mattes
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In his dissertation John Ward says -
The last piece...is una baxa de contrapunto. No identification of the
baxa=basse dance is offered by the composer, nor is it immediately clear
whether the bass, discant or musically ill defined alto-tenor carries the
borrowed material.
There is a lot