On Fri, Sep 28, 2007, Omer katzir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > does any one knows where to get Alexander Agricola Lute tabs for lute > (French/Italian)?
Not sure that Agricola ever wreote for the lute, most of his material was 3v and 4v vocal music, one expects that to be published in seperate part books. H M Brown, _Instrumental Music printed before 1600_ is where you should begin your search. Brown lists tablature editions (which mainly were printed, tho a few ms tablatures are of interest such as the Pesaro and the thibault); Brown's extensive indicis are by piece within each edition, and include composer and lyric attributions where they are known. It would be a mistake to focus entirely on tablature, much of the early tablature has its origin in music composed for seperate parts, rescribed for performance on lute, perhaps to accompany one or more voices. You can do this yourself, from a modern edition, or, making your own decisions on ficta and errata if you work from fascimile of the partbooks. Preparing your own editions is an excellent opportunity to get deep into the music. > Hans newsidler's have 2 pices named after AA, what's the story behind > them? Iy was common practice for publishers to get attributions wrong (our sight, todays standards), perhaps they were lying (AA being better known might boost sales), perhaps just mistaken, perhaps the lyrics were done by AA and the music redone by HN; perhaps HN has writen a parody of an AA piece, and if the edition was understood to be by HN then pointing out the parody by atributing AA might have been what was done, perhaps attributions were left until the end of the publication process and were dealt with hastily at a time when communication with those who would have knowledge was difficult (attributions mainly appear on the index page, which is usually the last thing prepared). We cant be certain without asking the editor. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
