There's also a microfilm of the Modena score at UCB. It would be easy to use it for a digital file. =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== Free Download of the Week
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor. For this week's free download from Classical Music Library go to my web page and click on Alexander Street Press link: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ =================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 7:38 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nina bass line |I think the advantage to putting this info online, not just for | musicologists with Case X access (the x files), | is for the average musician/voice student who has ben fed dreadful | versions of pieces-- | pieces that could provide a terrific reason to study early music. | Also, by putting it online, there would be a kind of reality check to | save voice students from their teachers. | To be clear, I advocate a free edition, with some alternate and | usable accompaniments, with free or online facsimiles to open a discussion. | There must be thousands of people who could be encouraged to study | lute & continuo songs. | dt | | At 03:05 AM 3/24/2008, you wrote: | >You've got a Xerox of the score in Modena, David. | > | >UC Berkeley Music f M2.8.R47 T7 UCB Case X | > | >And one of the librettos is on-line in digital format if you | >subscribe to Gale. | > | >As far as I know, the song first appears with piano accompaniment | >almost 100 years after the opera. Attr. to Pergolesi. There are | >surely hundreds of | >editions of that Italian Anthology. And of course it has since | >been a favorite of every voice teacher. I used to blanche when I | >sat on performance juries and saw the student with that | >d ------ able Italian Anthology under arm.<g> You knew you were | >in for "Nina" or "Amarilli, mia bella."<shudder> With | >appropriate gestures. | >=====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== | >Free Download of the Week | | | | To get on or off this list see list information at | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html |
