Oops! Stupid me. I didn't see that everything repeats from the 6th fret. I expected altered symbols for the higher notes. Shows you how often I read German tab. <blush> It makes more sense in the higher position.
On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Ed Durbrow wrote: > So are there 2 versions of the Juden Tantz by Neusidler? The one at > the site Thomas refers to works fine with the given tuning. It > doesn't go higher than fret 4.The transcription in the 1960 Lute > Journal also works fine and gives the same tuning, but the melody > is up a fourth, the highest note at the 9th fret. It even gives a > French tab transcription. From different books or the same book? > cheers, > >>> On 6/4/05, Thomas Schall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> If you can read german tablature >>>> try http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/jtanz/jtanz.html >>>> There is a facsimile of the piece > > > > On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Denys Stephens wrote: > >> Dear All, >> I am sure Arthur will remember this, but it may be of interest to >> others that that this inaccuracy in the tuning instructions for the >> "Judentanz" >> led to one of the great faux pas of lute musicology. Many years >> ago the >> eminent musicologist Willi Apel took the instructions at face >> value and >> wrote: >> >> "Der Judentanz (the dance of the Jews" .... represents one of the >> earliest >> examples, if not the earliest, of satire in music ...... the >> satirical >> character is >> expressed by cacophonous dissonances ...... it is written in a >> strikingly >> modern >> idiom of bi-tonality such as rarely occurs before the advent of the >> twentieth century." >> >> The late Michael Morrow wrote an article entitled "Ayre on the F >> sharp >> string" which was >> published in the Lute Society Journal of 1960 which corrected the >> misunderstanding. >> The quote above is from that article. > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
