The description in Coelho's catalog is as follows: 25. Montréal, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire de Musique, Ms without shelfmark 119 pages, containing 99 pieces in Italian tablature for 8-course lute (including two duets) and 13 canzonette and napolitane for lute and voice. Blank staves: 38, 64, 115v-116v. Size 25x18.5cm (upright format). At least three hands, possibly a fourth (f. 83) copied the manuscript. The foliation seems original. Two paper types: ff. 77-69 are printed with eight tablature staves, while the rest of the book contains seven. Presently the manuscript contains on its back the inscription, "Napolitana Intavolatura di liuto: Orazio Vecchi e Discepoli" in a modern hand.... The manuscript is possibly of Lombard (Bergamask?) provenance and can be dated to the years 1595-1610. .... The contents of Montréal were carefully prepared and arranged. Most of the passamezzi contain two or three partite, and usually conclude with a saltarello or gagliarda on the same thematic material. Ballo-Gagliarda and Paganina-Saltarello pairs also appear. The music itself consists for the most part of well-written works intended for the competent player. Beginning with f. 64, however, there appears a section of works –possibly in a different hand or else a variant of the first scribe – that contains a more technically difficult and sophisticated repertory than appears earlier in the source. This may represent a later chronological layer for this section. In fact, the beginning of the Gag[liar]da (no. 63), a work with many version and attributions, is also concordant to Gagliarda VI from Piccinini (1623), p. 61.
Composers: Bastiano, Bocquet, Caroso, Cavaccio, Crecquillon, Equitus Romani, Lasso, Mascara, Mertel, Molinaro(?), Alessandro Piccinini, Regnart, Rore, S.to [Santino?], Terzi, Vecchi. =============== Just from a quick read through the inventory, it looks like dances make up about three-quarters of the pieces in the MS. There are a few Canzonas, Ricercare and Toccate. Daniel Heiman On 26 Jan 2005 20:53 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?ISO-8859-1?b?IkpvYWNoaW0gTPxkdGtlIg==?=) writes: > Dear Bruno, > > the manuscript has been catalogued in Victor Coelho's The manuscript > sources of seventeenth-century italian lute music, NY & London 1995. > Unfortunately I have no copy of this book at hand momentarily ... > but I think I remember the book had got a shelf mark recently ... > > Joachim > > "Bruno et Valérie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >Joachim Lüdtke wrote: > > > >>Dear collected wisdom, > >> > >>there is an italian lute manuscript in Montreal, which a few years > ago had no shelf number or signature. Something in the back of my > head keeps saying that it has got one in recent times but I can't > buttonhole that voice and tell it that it either has to stay quiet > or inform me better. > >> > >>So: does anyone know if this manuscript (Bibliothèque du > Conservatoire du Musique) has a shelf number today? > >> > >>Yours sincerely, > >> > >>Joachim > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >Well, I live in Montreal and have never heard of it....and I've > been > >playing lute for 25 years...have to look into this > > > > > >Bruno > > > >Montreal > > > > > -- > > > > Dr. Joachim Luedtke > Frühlingsstraße 9a > D - 93164 Laaber > Tlf.: ++49 / +9498 / 905 188 > Mobil: 0172 / 275 49 48 > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > --