----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "List Lute" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:36 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Respighi
| At 09:40 PM 9/16/2008, howard posner wrote: | >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 | | Because original tablature versions of the Chilesotti book only appear to | exist in occasionally-referenced, third-person rumors, I believe Paul | O'Dette took a similar approach to his "Ancient Airs" recording: | re-intabulating from Chilesotti's staff-notation version. oooooooooooooooo Dear Eugene, This common misunderstanding about the Respighi Ancient Aires seems to surface from the guitar world each and every time the Respighi suites are mentioned! All you do is send readers on a wild goose chase looking for pieces that are NOT in the Codice Lauten-Buch. Can you imagine how frustrating it is to look through 100 scores in an attempt to find a work that is not there? We've all done t. First--fast through. Nothing. Slower. Nothing. "But Eugene said they're there." Once more--very slowly and carefully. Damn! There's no there there! All of the transcriptions used by Respighi come from SEVERAL articles on lute music published by Chilesotti in various places, including some rather obscure Italian music journals, which are particularly troublesome to locate. The three suites (publ. 1917, 1923 and 1931--after OC's death in 1916) contain 24 pieces, and ONLY SIX are taken from the Codice Lauten-Buch! And the tablature for one of the six pieces is reproduced in Chilesotti's book in facsimile. So one would only have to re-intabulate 5 of the pieces, because all of the others are available in the original tablatures, many in convenient facsimile editions or modern editions wth tablature. As for the "third-person rumors," I take exception elsewhere in this thread. I'd rather say they are not rumors, but an "eye-witness account" by a professional Italian lutenist who played a private recital in the home of the manuscript's current owner in the late 1990s. He is said to have performed directly directly from the original manuscript "Lauten-Buch." AJN oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo <<snip>> | Best, | Eugene | | | | To get on or off this list see list information at | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html |
