Dear Arthur & All, Even though we are looking at two sets of images of the same prints, the published and online facsimilies are interesting to compare. Two things are immediately apparent. The library stamp has been removed from the title page of the Minkoff edition, which is fair enough as it's not part of the original, but it does make one wonder about any other details that might have been 'retouched.' Secondly, many of the stave lines in the online images are very distorted, but in the Minkoff print they are dead straight. So the stave lines must surely have been straight when the Paris photos were taken. I wonder if the distortion that has since occurred might have been from the book being in damp conditions during the war years? At least, it's good to know that Petrucci didn't print those wobbly lines! It's also very nice to see the corrections Petrucci's workshop made to misprints - see for example f.32v, Libro Primo,fourth measure of 'Adieu mes amours' where the second event has been corrected.Or f.5r of the Libro Primo, top stave, 6th measure, first event: the handwritten '5' is reasonably clear in both versions, but in the online copy it's much clearer that the '3' below it is handwritten, and that a further tablature letter below that has been erased.Despite the fact that we are in theory looking at two identical sets of images, there are subtle differences that are worth looking out for.
Best wishes, Denys -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Ness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2007 23:00 To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino online ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:22 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino online Dear Wolfgang, On 12/1/2007, "wolfgang wiehe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you noticed differences to the minkoff facsimile? Interesting! I have both. Could you show us what differences you have found thus far? All the best, Arto ==================================================== Dear Arto and friends, They are the same book. Before its discovery in Krakow, the only surviving copy of Spinacino (books 1 & 2) was in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (shelf number Mus. ant. pract. P680/1-2). It disappeared during WW_II, and was known after the war from a Photostat made by Genevieve Thibault (iirc), and deposited in the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris. The original Berlin copy (the only one known in modern days) turned up in Krakow about ten years ago. Thus the on-line digitalizecd copy and Mrs. Minkoff's facsimile are reproductions of the very same book. At one time, Mrs. Minkoff retouched some of pages in her facsimiles, but stopped that parctice after receiving complaints. In one instance she removed fingering dots that she thought were fly specs (or something like that).<g> But I do not know if she did so with her Spinacino facsimile, which is fairly late, and probably after she got the "Word" (from Bob Spencer). There is a modern edition of both books with transcrption and parallel tablature in H. L. Schmidt's dissertation at U of North Carlina at Chapel Hill. ==AJN (Boston, Mass.) ================================================ This week's free download from Classical Music Library is _Prokofiev's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Op. 80___ Go to my web page: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ For some free scores, go to: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
