Thanks for all your insights Monica!
> On Jan 4, 2018, at 4:59 AM, mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
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> Updating it yet again - I keep getting interrupted - but the tuning
> chart seems to indicate that the 5th course is tuned in unison with the
> third course stopped at the 2nd fret which would make it re-entrant.
> Monica
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
> Date: 04/01/2018 9:51
> To: "VihuelaList"<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Subj: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Moravsky Manuscript
>
> Updating my previous message - and having looked more carefully at the
> manuscript I am not sure that all the music in tablature is for 5-
> course guitar. The pieces on p.50-61 seem to require an unstopped 6th
> course and one piece on p.91 requires 5 open corse. On p.97 there is a
> table of alfabeto chords and a tuning chart apparently for 5-course
> guitar.
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
> Date: 04/01/2018 9:48
> To: "VihuelaList"<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Subj: [VIHUELA] Re: Moravsky Manuscript
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> I had a bit more time to look at this - I actually have a pdf of it
> already. It is (or was) in the
> Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno in the Czech Republic.
>
> I don't think we can assume that all the music is by Losy or that all
> of it was originally composed for guitar. I never had time to look at
> all the pieces - about 50 pages of them. Maybe one day.
> Monica
>
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> ----Original Message----
> From: dshos...@mac.com
> Date: 04/01/2018 0:17
> To: <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
> Cc: "VihuelaList"<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Subj: [VIHUELA] Re: Moravsky Manuscript
>
> Sadly the only info is what the pdf file contains. One piece that
> mentions “Logi”. A couple pieces with lute concordances by other
> composers.
>
>> On Jan 3, 2018, at 3:27 PM, mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
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>> The music in tablature appears to be for 5-course guitar. There are
> a
>> few 5-part chords which could be strummed but it seems to be mainly
> in
>> lute style and perhaps mid 18th century. How do we know that the
> music
>> is actually by Losy? Which library owns it today?
>> The rest seems to be for mandora or gallichon. Martyn may know more
>> about it if he has read this.
>>
>> Monica
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>> ----Original Message----
>> From: dshos...@mac.com
>> Date: 03/01/2018 19:02
>> To: "WALSH STUART"<s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
>> Cc: "VihuelaList"<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "Monica Hall"
>> <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
>> Subj: [VIHUELA] Re: Moravsky Manuscript
>>
>> Sorry, letâs try a dropbox:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/oaqfczqgfio4gao/Losy-GuitareEtMandore.pdf?dl=0
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>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/oaqfczqgfio4gao/Losy-GuitareEtMandore.pdf?dl=0>
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>>> On Jan 3, 2018, at 1:57 PM, WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 1/3/2018 5:07 PM, DANIEL SHOSKES wrote:
>>>> Iââ¬â¢ve come across the Moravsky manuscript which is an
>> interesting mix of bandora, baroque guitar, ââ¬Å6 string/courseâ
> â
>> ¬Â guitar and other works in standard notation. Much music of Losy
>> (Logy).
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>>>> A link is here: http://www.classicalguitardelcamp.com/viewtopic.php?t=67271
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>> <http://www.classicalguitardelcamp.com/viewtopic.php?t=67271>
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>>> I get the following message:
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>>> You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached
>> to this post.
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>>>>
>>>> If anyone has info on the Ms, Iââ¬â¢d like to ask the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1) On page 48 there is a page of tuning for guitar and mandora.
>> While note values aren't given for the guitar the sixth course for
> the
>> mandora is a G and that seems to work for the guitar pieces. Is
> there
>> evidence for a 6 course guitar that Losy composed for? I've tried
> them
>> on my Romantic guitar just playing the E string stopped at the 3rd
>> fret.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Any sources for the tuning that Losy used? Switching between
> the
>> Romatic guitar and my baroque guitar in re-entrant tuning some
> pieces
>> seem better suited to one of the other.
>>>>
>>>> 3) How clear are the attributions to Losy? I did find one Rondeau
>> that says Logi but appears in the Haslemere lute MS attributed to
> Weiss
>> and in another attributed to von Bohrenfels.
>>>>
>>>> 4) None of the guitar works have strumming indications. All
> plucked
>> or would the performance practice to be strum away?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Danny
>>>>
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