Just to add some details.
I've looked in the edition by Lothar Furmann from 1981 (Trekel).
The music in the manuscript requires a 9-course lute. It contains a over
3 pages long unique piece by Dowland (La mia Barbara).
The earliest date I found is a piece being composed by J.v.Hove on 12
may 1613.
The frontispiece says Ernst Schele Anno 1619. all the music is clearly
legible and the manuscript contains a "best of" lutemusic of that time.
Ralf is a good editor and I can only recommend this edition if it's
available in facsimile (His Milano has only guitar transcriptions).
His jazz stuff is recommendable, too. The seldom occassions I'm playing
classical guitar I often take his edition by Schott with music of Bill
Evans ("For Nenette" is a gem!) and from "orfeo negro". Well done!
Also recommended are his Jazz records.
Best wishes
Thomas
Am Son, 2004-05-16 um 19.07 schrieb Bernd Haegemann:
>
>
> > facsimile. The Schele Lute Book is
> > thought to have been copied by the Dutch lutenist Joachim van den
> > Hove,
>
> This is what Prof. Boetticher told us, as far as I remember.
> But in Berlin there is a
> mus ms autograph Hove 1
> which shows a quite different handwriting. Much more fluent, and
> some letters like "a" and "d" are really different from Schele.
> Mr Jarchow has examples in his edition.
>
> and contains many of his own compositions, as well as a wide
> > selection of lute music by his contempioraries, J & R Dowland, Melii,
> > Vallet, Giovanni Battista, Kapsberger, Ballard, Perrichon, Besard et
> > al. It is a book well deserving of a facsimile edition because of
> > the quality of its some 156 pieces, and also because of the clear,
> > but somewhat crammed, handwritten French tablature ciphers
>
> yes :-)
>
> But there seem to be some connections with the Netherlands.
> The paper is from there, lots of pieces by v.d. Hove, and one certain
> Daniel Schele Hamburgensis studied in Leiden at the time in question.
> That's all. Nobody knows Ernst.
>
> regards BH
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