For a long time I had only the 11-c lute and played everything on it,
including anything by Weiss, even Kropfgans, Hagen (Concerto!) and
Kohaut. However not without a pain in some places ;-)) As for dilema
between 'rider' or 'swan', the one or two notes stopped on the 9th or
10th course, what happens once or twice in a whole Weiss (I don't
remember), you cen always play an 8ve higher. I try to remember that
the amount of Music in music is the thing which matters. The rest is
technology.
Jurek
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On 2007-11-30, at 09:52, T. Diehl-Peshkur wrote:
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
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