Some of you may wish to know that the English translation by Carol MacClintock of Vincenzo Galilei's _Fronimo (1584),_ American Institute of Musicology, Musicological Studies and Documents, 39 (1985), is still available. My catalogue lists it for $64. AIM publications are distributed by A-R Editions in Middleton, Wisconsin.(www.areditions.com).
Incidentally A-R Editions has just released John Griffiths and Dinko Fabris _Neapolitan Fantasias_ containing works by Dentice, the Severinos, Cardone, M. Newsidler et al. Transcription and separate tablature. Many of the works are from Berlin/Cracow, Mus Ms 40032. ajn --------------------------------------------- Arto wrote: Dear Martyn, > Yes, I would be most grateful for the relevant page numbers in the > original edition(s) -1568 and/or 1584. The MacClintoc translation/edition is of the 1584 version. If I interprete the listings of contents right, the talk about uneven fret placement and tastini starts in page 155ff: "Unequal frets on Lute and Viola to provide for major and minor semitones are an impertinence", and then page 162: "Frets added to the Lute, and their impertinence". What makes me wonder, is that these page numbers seem to correspond also the pages of the translation! And for ex. this 155ff is the _lower_ half of the modern page 155! Could MacClintock really preserve the original page numbering in the translation? Anyhow, please check that Martyn, and let us know! By the way, in the book there is lots of more interesting material of these matters than I wrote to the net in my page in 1995! That is only kind of teaser, actually... ;-) And in the book there is also very much else to be studied! I must put the book in the front of my reading list! Thanks for re-activating my interest to Il Fronimo! Perhaps I or others will inform the List of other intersting comments of music and lutes written by Vincenzo G.! All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
