FROM: Matanya Ophee, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: 10/13/03 5:02 PM Re: Re: MO's attacks
<<snip>> MOrphee wote<><><><>Unfortunately for him and for his misguided predatory philosophy, that is far from being the case. We should be grateful to him and his ilk for the fact that the Franko University Library in Lviv, the Ukraine, refuses to allow anyone to have copies of the Lviv Manuscript or even to acknowledge its existence. Do prove me wrong, if you can.<><><><><> The L'vov (or Lwow) Manuscript, Ms 1400/I in the Ivana Franko Naucnaja Biblioteka is well known in the west. . It has 124 folios and 66 pieces. Most of it was copied by Hans Kernstockh in Cracow around 1555, and includes fantasias and dances by Giovanni Pacoloni, and a galliard attr. to Valentin Bakfark, some Polish songs and dances and lots of intabulations of French chansons, etc. . Paul O"Dette has even programed pieces from it. The Bakfark piece is in Benko's collected edition. It is probably best called the Kernstock Lute Book, but is also officvcially known as the Strzeskowsky Lute Book after a recent owner, who published some Polish pieces from it. A few months ago someone told me that he had refereed a paper that discussed the Pacoloni dances in that manuscript. Perhaps we'll read about it in one of our journals. There are microfilms of it circulating in the west, allthough I don't have a copy myself. I think someone even told me that there is a facsimile edition published in Poland. It's not a terribly exciting manuscript in my opinion. It also contains Dowland's "Farewell Fantasia," although neither the title nor the composer are named in the manuscript. Someone published the Dowland fantasia in a string orchestra arrangement made from the Kernstockh tablature, but the arranger didn't know that the piece was by Dowland. I forget what title they gave it. One reason for confusion about the manuscript is because there are so many names for that city, Lvov, now in the Ukraine. Pohlman lists the manuscript under Lemberg, the Austrian name for Lwow, the Polish name for Leopolis, the Latin name for that place. At various times it has been part of Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, and has had to battle off assaults by Turks, Tartars, Cossacks, and Swedes. Sounds like a city with a sadly violent history. I don't understand why M. Orphee thinks that Roman Turovsky "and his ilk" (=???) should be blamed because the Franko library doesn't answer its mail. I find it difficult to believe that the library denies owning the manuscript, it has been cited so frequently. In addition to Pohlmann, the manuscript is also listed in Boetticher's RISM inventory, in the Meyer et al. catalogue of lute manuscript in the former East Bloc countries, and probably in my article in New Grove. ajn. <>
