I should have mentioned that there is a useful site for online library catalogues all over the world. That's an easy way to find if a specific piece of music is available.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "ARTHUR NESS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:41 AM Subject: Re: Gorzanis > Dear Eugene and Thomas, > > You found the answer, Eugene. There is a modern edition of Gorzanis's > Napolitane > (1570) which I would expect Kredider to use: > > XV Napolitane per chitarra solo appura per chitarra e canto ... Giacomo > Gorzanis [ed.] Bruno Tonazzi Locarno: Pegasus, 1963). > > I also noticed an edition in Guitar Solo publications Gorzanis: 15 > Neopolitan [sic] > Songs of the 16th Century (N4040) for $US 7.00. I wonder if it is the > same > thing. It does not have the same plate number as the Pegasus edition. GSP > is in San Francisco, Eugene: Toll Free: 866 788-2255 > > The original is BrownI 1570/1 and I made a note in my copy that Tonazzi > has > edited Nos. 2-11, 14-18, and 23. > > That is Howard Mayer Brown, _Instrumntal music >printed before 1500: A > bibliography_ (Harvard, 1967). > > I was surprised how popular Gorzanis's songs are. There is even an > arrangement for voice and orchestra. > Many dances use variation technique. For example, most paired pavans and > galliards share the same thematic and harmonic materials. Later in the > 17th- > and 18th-centuries many suites and partitas (particularly partitas) will > have several dance types all built from the same materials, and usually > classified as variation dance suites. > > Regards, Arthur. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: Gorzanis > > >> Here is the last bit of anything I have to offer on Gorzanis and the >> mandolin orchestra at the moment, this from the liner notes of the >> previously cited CD: >> >> Gorzanis, a native of the southern Italian province of Puglia, was blind >> by >> birth [EB: if he was blind "by" birth, thank God he enjoyed his pre-birth >> years as sighted]. He was probably of noble parentage, and it is thought >> that he began his career at the Spanish court in Bari. After extended >> travels, he settled in Trieste. A great many of his compositions were >> works for lute, and they were praised for their virtuosity and >> complexity. They are regarded as important forerunners of the Italian >> variation dance suite [EB: I'm not entirely certain what "variation dance >> suite" should imply]. Gorzanis' printed editions met with great esteem >> already during his lifetime. In 1570 he published a collection entitled >> Il >> primo libro di napolitane ariose che si cantano et sonano in >> leuto. These >>napolitane ariose<< are characterized by what is mostly a >> three-part homophonic design and fifth parallels >>forbidden<< in the >> traditional writing style. Dieter Kreidler has arranged five dance >> suites >> from this collection for a four-part baroque lute ensemble [EB: i.e., >> pseudo-anachronistic, big, 6-course, modern German barockmandolinen as >> the >> sopranos], panpipes, and percussion. This instrumentation brings the >> sound >> world of prebaroque Neapolitan music to new life. >> >> Marga Wilden-Husgen >> Susan Marie Praeder, trans. >> >> So, it would appear that you should be seeking the Napolitane Ariose. >> I'm >> still eager to hear how the performance unfolds. >> >> Best, >> Eugene >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >
