Dear friends, I am not convinced at all, whether one has to label "Valen= cian" or even "Spanish" the system used by Milan. Besides the tablature of Melchiore de Barberiis = from Padova, mention by Stewart, there are some other examples, although even m= uch later ones, which use the same system, but have nothing to do with Spain:<= /span>
- formerly Vesoul Ms. 711 (France) unfortunately disappeared du= ring the WW II. - 25 pieces as ms. additions to the Munich copy of Adrian Denss= ' Florilegium (1594) Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2o Mus. pr. 93.<= /div> - Another lost ms. which once in the posession of the Polish sc= holar A. Polinski It seems, that that we have better to call this kind of tablatu= re to a variant of the so called italian tablature. Best regards, Peter--------------------- Peter Kir=E1ly Glockenstr. 34 D-67655 Kaiserslautern T/Fax. (00)49 631 69866 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
