Arthur and any others who are tinterested: Arthur mentions Byrd's lute music below. I always assumed the pieces I have seen in lute tab were 16th Century intabulations taken from some of Byrd's other music. Has someone done an article on Byrd's lute music that I can read? I'd love to get a list of the pieces and which manuscripts they are in. Nancy Carlin
>There was lute music on two staves much earlier than the Denkmaeler der >Tonkunst. And I do not know how influential that IMS conference report >was. Byrd, Couperin, Bach, et al., for example, use two staves. So lute >music in pitch notation on the grand staff has always been with us. The >use of A tuning can be annoying to us familiar with the G tuning. But >German editors seemtofavorit. Even some of those Die Tabulatur editions >use A tuning (another problem with Ophee's article; he doesn't discuss >tuning, or compare the transcriptions with the tablature). By the way, >CNRS now issues a separate volume of tablature, as well as the volume of >tablature and parallel transcription. So no longer do you need to cut and >paste. Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
