Thank you, Arthur, for sharing this exciting memory about the Donaueschingen Manuscript. Fascinating, as susual !
All the best, Jean-Marie Poirier >Dear Bernd and Denys, > >That is most likely a Venetian street song. "El fuso" is Venetian >dialect (NOT Spanish as in RISM for Munich 1511B!!!<sigh>). >You'll find more pieces by consulting the index in Brown (under >"Rocha"). Also there is a three-movement dance group in the >Pacolini trios (Phalèse 1564-but the pieces are much earlier). >Minkoff facsimile. Many of the song lyrics are known because >Azzaiolo used the tunes and texts in many of his villotes. Knud >Jepessen has done the most work, and alas I have lost my files, >so must write from a somewhat hazy memory. Many of the pieces >(but not "Rocha") in a Venetian keyboard manuscript which >Jepessen edited as _*Antichi balli veneziani*_ (Copenhagen, >1962), and more information is in his study, "Ein >altvenezianische Tanzbuch," in the _*Festschrift für Karl Gustav >Fellerer*_ (1962). Jepessen is able to quote most of the lyrics >which he discovered in Azzaiolo villotes and villanellas. > >There's at least one more Venetian street song in the >Donaueschingen MS (now in Stuttgart?), "Bernardo non puol stare" >(Bernard can't stand up) set by Melchior Newsidler. Many of >those old Venetian street songs feature foreign soldiers with >accents. Bernardo isn't able to stand because, like a typical >soldier, he's had too much to drink. It's rather hilarious in >Marco's duet. Two strings are struck, when one is intended. The >lutenist is drunk, too.<g> That other Munich manuscript Mus Ms >1511b is Italian and entirely devoted to Venetian street songs-or >largely so. So was probably copied in Venice (not in Augsburg). > >Some titles of Venetian street songs in the lute repertory >include "El Burato," "La Traditora" (traitor in love), "La Cara >Cosa," "Maton, maton" (the soldier with his accent saying >"Madonna") "Vegnando da Bologna," "La torza," "Tocca tocca la >canella" (beat the cane), etc. > >One of my surprise "discoveries" was that Donaueschingen >Manuscript. I'd gone to the Fuerstenberg library just to look >at a signature in a book, and so I loitered, sipping coffee at a >sidewalk >café. And then wandered over to the artificial grotto where the >Danube begins, with a bigger than life size statue of Johann >Strauss playing his violin. It was a lazy day. Didn't have >anything to do but look at a signature. > >So it was just a few minutes I needed in the library. >Particularly famous (iirc) for 18th-century music. The Duke had >all the latest Haydn and Mozart symphonies sent from Vienna. And >looked at the signature, and it wasn't what I was hoping for. I >asked the librarian if the library had any lute music, since I >had a hour or two to wait for my train back to Munich. No, she >said (she didn't know about the Gumprecht tablatures), but she >thought there were some 18th-century guitar arrangements of >Lutheran chorales, something that normally wouldn't interest me >too much. >She looked in the card catalogue. "Yes, here it is." But I >thought, I'd never seen something like that, so I asked to take a >look. > >Well, a surpise awaited me. It wasn't 18th, it was 16th century. >I had in my hands one of the largest >collections of Renaissance lute music known. Over 300 pieces >(iirc). I spotted a ricercar by Francesco that was otherwise >unknown, and an entire book of Venetian lute music copied from >Italian into German tablature. The Venetian original is known >only by its title in an old catalogue. No copy of the Italian >original is >know to exist. Some French pieces towards the end, including >(Mlle. or M.) "Bocquet." Some titles were in Hebrew script. >Needless to say, I >missed my train. It was really an exciting moment for a student. >Something like that doesn't drop in your lap every day.<g> > >Hope this gives you a start, Bernd. Good luck. > >P.S. Do you know any lutenists in Frankfurt an der Oder? > >=====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== >Free Download of the Week > >This week's free download from >Classical Music Library is >Ginastera's Estancia Suite, Op. 8a, >performed by the >Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra; >Fernando Lozano, conductor. >Click on the CML link here >http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ >=================================== > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://poirierjm.free.fr 04-04-2008
