On Jan 24, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ray Brohinsky wrote: > I suppose playing only two notes of the last chord (and getting one of > them wrong)
I'm not following this reference. It sounds like you're describing my playing, but I don't think you've ever heard me. > is a tremendouser sin than just changing one of the notes > of the last chord, eh? It's a change in the fundamental character of the ending. > And yet, considering the setting (and the title > of the music) who is to say? I can't speak for the manuscript that > Forlorn Hope is found in, nor the accuracy of transcription of M. > Veylit's PDF collection, but I found enough errors in both mss and > printed tab (period and modern) to be unable to stand on an absolute > like this. Wrong letters, misplacement by a string, all sorts of > things. There is one published source (Mertel's Hortus Musicalus Novus) and one manuscript source in the Cambridge Library. Both end in major. All of Dowland's minor-mode fantasies end in major. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
