I believe the remaining pieces are from the "Chilesotti Lute Book" (Da un Codice Lauten-buch), a book of musicologist Oscar Chilesotti's transcriptions of a lute manuscript, which was published in 1891. The original lute book has not been available publicly, if at all, for more than a century. Rumors of its whereabouts drift around from time to time. Arthur Ness will doubtless have something to say on that subject.
In 1986 Paul O'Dette recorded a CD on Hyperion of all the pieces Respighi used, in the order they appear in Antiche Arie e Danze, titled "Ancient Airs and Dances." He mentioned most, if not all, of the sources in the CD booklet, but I can't swear that if you buy the CD now you'll get the same booklet. In 1994 Dick Hoban's Lyre Music Publications published "Oscar Chilesotti's Da un Codice Lauten-buch," Dick's re-intabulation of Chilesotti's transcriptions in neat, easy-to-read large-type French tablature, spiral bound. You can order it from: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lyre/lyre.html Dick's foreword mentions that numbers 59, 50, 49, 24 and 43 are in Respighi's first suite. On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:23 PM, ml wrote: > I was listening to the 1st Suite by Respighi (Antiche Arie e > Danze), and became curious: the first and second pieces are by > Molinaro and V. Galilei, and the 3rd and 4th are Anon. > > Which pieces exactly are the originals used by Respighi? Where are > they available (I mean the intabs, of course)? > > The first is played by POD in his Molinaro CD, and I could locate > it in the SPES edition, but regarding the other three I have no > idea where to look at... -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
