Quoting Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:... > > From: "Robert Crim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Tablature (Lute, vihuela, etc.) > > Date: Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:49 PM > > > > On 16 Sep 2006 11:17:35 -0700, "Enemy Combatant" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I am confused and ignorant on this subject so please > >>have patience with > >>me. Didn't Melchior Neusidler write his two books in > >>Italian > >>Tablature? Were they published later, but in German. > >>What is > >>available, and in what form, concerning the works of > >>Melchior > >>Neusidler? > > > > Facsimiles are available at > > > > http://www.omifacsimiles.com/cats/lute.html in German > > lute tablature. > > > > Robert > > ================================================ > > > > As Todd correctly wrote, the two 1566 prints of > > Melchior Newsidler are in > > Italian tablature. > > > > Steve made a mistake and it will be corrected before > > the week is out. Since > > Todd seemed so positive, why didn't you check Pohlmann > > or Brown? > > > > We probably have more autograph manuscripts by > > Melchior (son, NOT brother of > > Hans) Newsidler (ca. 1531-before 1595) than any other > > lutenist of the > > Renaissance. (Another mistake > > in the Wikipedia). All the > > autographs are in Italian tablature, the preferred > > system in Bavaria. We've > > touched on this before in regard to other Bavarian > > tablatures. > > > > Todd is correct that the books in Italian tablature > > were later published > > in German tablature by one of his student at > > Frankfurt/Oder (then East > > Prussia).
Benedictus de Drusina was the publisher of the German tab version of Melchior's Italian books. Is there any evidence of a Student/teacher relationship between the two? His Lautenbuch of 1574 is also in German > > tablature, because that > > was the system used in Strassbourg where it was > > published, and was perhaps > > the system known to its > > dedicatee Dorothy of Denmark (reputedly the most > > beautiful woman in Europe). > > MN was perhaps bargaining to take Ochsenkhun's place > > as her personal > > lutenist. Interesting. I was under the impression that the reason Melchior reverted to German tab was to dispel all suspicions of being un-patriotic. He seem very defensive in the 1574 preface about his use of Italian tab. Arne Keller. More than 240 works by MN survive in > > manuscript and printed > > sources, making him the most prolific of the > > Renaissance masters. He is > > surely the greatest central European master. > > > > His music is surely very difficult, and is usually > > full four-voiced > > contrapuntal textures, and frequently moves into the > > instrument's highest > > regions. Paul O'Dette is beginning to add MN pieces to > > his repertory, > > and surely we will have some CDs from him. > > ==ajn > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
