> In tablatures, as pieces are copied and reprinted the > mistakes become cumulative. That is, unless a mistake is > glaring, it is not corrected. And so the number of > mistakes in a piece is an indication of how far it is > from the original. I noticed once that many English > sources with continental music willhave the same > mistakes as the same [pieces in Phalese, which is how I > came to the idea that Phalèse was responsible for much > continental music reaching Britian. > > So what you propose can be instructive in drawing a > stemma of sources.
Indeed, much my thinking. But what a job! Funding, anyone? ;-) David > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David van Ooijen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:45 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Phalèse's bookshelf > > >> Dear Arthur >> >>> But I made the list you are thinking about for my >>> "Sources of Lute Music" article in New Grove (but it >>> was >>> cut due to space limitations). These are the short >>> titles to save me some typing (all except one in >>> Brown). >> >> It looks much like the Brown-list, yes. But that list >> doesn't tell us >> everything. When Phalèse includes a piece in his 1563 >> book, includes it >> again in his 1568 book, and they both look pretty much >> the same, we might >> safely assume he copied the 1568 inclusion from the >> 1563 version he already >> had. But the first appearance is the same, according >> to Brown, as it >> appeared in at least two previous books by different >> publishers. If you take >> the trouble to compare these versions, you will find >> small and perhaps even >> great, differences. Due to copy errors, or some >> different divisions or >> ficta, due to the whim of the editor. Brown still >> calls all these versions >> the same. Carefull studt might reveal the lineage and >> tell us which of those >> two books Phalèse used. I'm doing this now with just >> one piece, and it >> reveals much that Brown doesn't mention, couldn't >> mention in the scope of >> his book, which is just a list. If it would be done >> with _all_ the pieces of >> Phalèse, we might get a pretty conclusive answers to >> what was on his >> bookshelves. >> So I wondered, did anybody ever do something like this >> before? >> >> David >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > >
