Hi Stuart and Monica,
Thanks to both of you for this. I enjoyed listening--and watching--this
evening, before having to go back to work after a holiday weekend
(Labor Day over here).
Best,
Jocelyn
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From: Monica Hall <[1]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012 3:07 PM
To: WALSH STUART <[2]s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Vihuelalist <[3]vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Three Playford tunes from Princess Anne's "lute"
book
Well - Please note that it is not a Dutch manuscript although it is now
in a
Dutch Library - the Nederlands Muziekinstituut in the Hague, and the
call
mark is NL:DHnmi Kluis D 1. The manuscript belonged to our English
Queen
Anne and was
copied and bound before she came to the throne in 1702. She was the
younger
daughter of James II and was taught the guitar by Corbetta. The
manuscript
includes
arrangements of a number of Purcell pieces which date from the 1690s so
can
be dated fairly precisely to between 1695-1700.
It is not known who copied the manuscript or arranged the pieces but I
agree - they
aren't particularly idiomatic.
Still - you have made a reasonably good jub of the ones you have
recorded...
There'll always be an England where there's a country lane.....Where
did you
take the photos?
Monica
Monica
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From: "WALSH STUART" <[4]s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "vl" <[5]vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:54 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Three Playford tunes from Princess Anne's "lute"
book
I uploaded these three tunes, well known from Playford, a while
ago.
Monica Hall edited them from a more or less contemporary Dutch MS.
The
tunes are:Siege of Limerick, Spanish Jig and May Hill.
[1][6]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFdDoAYmCE
I think they are really rather difficult. Modern plectrum players on
guitars, mandolins etc can just play the melody line as in Playford
but
these contemporary guitar arrangements are very different. They have
lots of not-so-easy strummed chords and lots of ornaments.
Mr. Isaacs Maggot = Maguet, p.68, which I haven't attempted here,
seems
especially difficult, especially around bar 15.
Stuart
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