Dear David, Arcadelt's "Quando io Penso al martire" is No. 22 in _Il Quarto Libro di Madrigali d'Archadelt_ (Venice: Gardane, 1539). Unfortunately I don't have the 4-part score to hand, but I do have an intabulation by Bakfark in the same key. I have compared the first 20 bars of the Newsidler and Bakfark versions one above the other in Fronimo, and although the divisions are different, they seem to track (more or less) what I imagine the chanson to be. It's not an ideal way of doing it, but the best I can manage for now. Funnily enough, the two versions almost make a tolerable duet, because the one tends to have divisions when the other doesn't.
The only mistake I can find so far, is the second rhythm sign of the piece. It should be a dotted crotchet, not a quaver. Perhaps the type-setter read the dot as an extra tail on the flag. Otherwise, you have to be sure you are reading the letters correctly. There is a lack of consistency in the appearance of the cyphers, which adds an extra level of difficulty. Knowing from another source what they should be, can help reading what they are in Newsidler's setting. I'd be interested to compare the two intabulations more, but to save time, please could you say exactly where you think the mistakes are. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 1:45 PM Subject: [LUTE] Melchior Neusidler > I have transcribed Arcadelt's Quando io Penso al martire from melchior > Neusidler's Teutsch Lautenbuch (1574). Its seems to have rather many > mistakes, but then again, German tablature is not my forte ;-). Anybody has > experience with this lute book and its reliability? > > David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
