Hello Sterling, Sorry it is, as written by the editors and born out of the texts of the Peters Edition. Please check D. A. Smith's as well as Crawford's forwards to the complete edition. D. A. Smith claimed ALL of London was for 11 course; however Crawford has (for good reason) not translated that part of Alton's German forward, because that is incorrect.
A second scribe added a number of lower bass notes in a different handwriting to much of the existing 11 course music; this is even visible for us mere mortals in the distinct slant of the added 5's and 6's in the music. Only a number of these pieces have these lower courses written down in the original scribe's handwriting. Compare for instance in Weiss Quelle: London/Tabulatur I 43 verso measure 26, look at the way the =8C4' is written; idem 42 recto measure 41. Then look at the Courante, 43 recto, measures 69, 70, 71, 72 and note the extreme right sided slant- unlike all the other notes on both pages, which are almost straight or slanting leftwards. These are typical examples.. Long live the 11 course lute- which has a massive library of literature for it- even Weiss :-) ! Theo From: sterling price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:03:29 -0800 (PST) To: "T. Diehl-Peshkur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: Re: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: 13 course rider/swan ----- Original Message ---- -Half of Weiss' output is for 11 course lute (the entire London MS, with only a few exceptions). Now I -know- that is not true. And a good deal of the London MS is for 13 course. Not sure of the exact numbers though. Sterling ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html