Christian Mondrup wrote > Whether the 'natural shaped' accidentals are typos or not there is no > doubt that they denote sharps.
I have to confess that I posted the same query to hpschd-l and have gotten many very interesting responses. Only one of them sided with Christian; the rest (about a dozen) said to believe what's there and had various reasons for it. Read all about it at http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0412&L=hpschd-l under "Storace's accidentals". Aside from the implicit lack of any precendent for interpreting a natural as a sharp, one of the main arguments for keeping them as they are boils down to the notion that we tend to analyze such questions based on 18th-C and later concepts of harmony (and that's exactly what Christian has done), but that things were different in Italy in C17. By the way, just today I uploaded a "special" excerpt (i.e., with verbatim accidentals) of the other puzzling example, to http://www.geocities.com/pchpublish/spemep1.pdf Some of the other arguments centered on the academic nature of ricercari. Since this other example is a Passo e Mezzo--a dance--I'm waiting to see if anyone backs down. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
