And that was before the "age of scordatura" set in, when even mensural notation became a sort of tabulature. RT
> At 07:01 PM 11/14/2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: >>...and tabulature allows any piece to be played by any lute of any >>size within its appropriate time-period, regardless of the key and its >>relationship to each partucular instrument's pitch. > > ..Other than a set relative pitch of intervals between courses (typical > renaissance tuning in six courses, e.g., 4th-4th-3rd-4th-4th), of > course. Tablature for one set of open-string intervals is worthless to an > instrument tuned to different intervals without some real effort at > transcription; i.e., you can't readily play renaissance tablatures on > d-minor lute, bass colascione, renaissance mandore, baroque-era mandolino, > etc. > > Eugene > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com
