Hello Stuart,
That is strange nobody can play a music which is almost 300 years old. In
France, at this age, music is public with no more rights".
I am probably wrong, but I don't see well the problem.
Damien
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Andrew Hartig" <cittern2...@theaterofmusic.com>
Cc: <cittern@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:42 PM
Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Moravian Choralbuch
Stuart Walsh wrote:
Andrew Hartig wrote:
Dear all,
Some time back Andy Rutherford had told us about a manuscript book
(BMB4) in the Moravian Archives of Bethlehem, PA (USA) for 6-course
cittern, tuned GCEgbe. Andy managed to get over there to take some
photos, and after quite a few emails with the folks at the Moravian
Archives, I am pleased to announce that Andy's photographs of the book
are now available for public download from my web site.
I have compiled all of his photos into a single PDF (25 MB). You can get
to it from the "Music Files" page of the Renaissance Cittern Site,
http://cittern.theaterofmusic.com/musicfiles/ (scroll down to the "box"
for 18th century music), where perhaps you may also find something else
of interest.
Special thanks again to Lanie Graf and all the other fine people of the
Moravian Archives and Andy Rutherford for working together to make this
possible!
-Andrew
Very interesting and a great resource. Thanks Andrew. There's lots to
ponder. For example the funny little 11 sign, which is perhaps an
ornament. And these settings include the tune, as sung?
The chorale settings seem (after a quick look) quite full, with voice
leading etc. No 40 sounds vaguely familiar. Here's a quick recording on
a factory-made Russian guitar, but in the GCEgbe tuning. A lot of the
pieces are in C major, even though the tuning isn't fully chordal.
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/No40.mp3 (deleted - just read "The
manuscript and its music may not be reproduced or published without the
consent of the Moravian Archives." Sorry!)
And here's one of the little dance tunes at the end (with a rather
glaring mistake in the repeat of the second strain!):
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Men3.mp3 (deleted)
I think it was Rob who said that James Tyler claimed that the English
guitar (guittar) has its origins in Germany. I haven't seen his (Tyler's)
Evora paper. I looked at a link to the Evora papers but it was dead.
Anyway, I think Germany is a likely contender for what got makers in
Britain going in the 1750s. But the cittern in Germany itself seems not
to have got involved in the 'guittar' fashion. And the music that exists
(as far as I know) is in 'old-fashioned' tablature. Boetticher (if I've
spelt his name correctly) mentions some four-course music c.1750s and
there's the Bunsold tablature and now this.
Stuart
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