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.
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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
> >
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