Dear William, Even with the aid of a good dictionary, I don't understand the phrase "Colliginous trenchancy". What does it mean?
The song you are after is published in Verchaly's anthology, _Airs de Cour pour Voix et Luth_ (Paris: SEDIM, 1989), pp. 4-5. There are many unsatisfactory aspects of this setting, in particular harmony which does not consistently conform to the usual Jeune Fillette harmony. For example, the second section begins with chords of B flat, F, and G minor for the first time round, but B flat, F, and B flat for the repeat (where the lute starts its solo). One important thing to note is the bad editing for footnote 1: |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ | _a_________a_______ _a___b_____d__c__|_ _b___d_____d_____|_ _____d___________|_ ___________a_____|_ _a___b__d________|_ should read |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ | _a_________a_______ _a___b_____d__c__|_ _b___d_____d_____|_ _____d___________|_ ___________a_____|_ _a___b__d________|_ because otherwise you'd get parallel fifths. There are a couple of sharps which I find hard to stomach: 1) C# for "dure". Verchaly adds an editorial sharp to the voice part, presumably to match c3 in the lute tablature. More likely is that the tablature was wrong, and that the voice should be left as it was. Instead I think you should change c2 to b3 for a minor chord. 2) The sharp in bar 3 of page 5 (c3 in the tablature). Again, c3 should be b3, unless you want the song to sound like the Blues. The pitch of the song is given as G minor, but the real pitch will be determined by the pitch of the lute. If your lute is tuned to g', the singer will end up singing in F minor, a tone lower than written. I hope that helps. I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the song on my computer, so, unless anyone else can provide it, you may have to make your own with Django. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -----Original Message----- From: William Brohinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 October 2008 02:18 To: lute-cs. dartmouth. edu Subject: [LUTE] Ma Belle si ton ame of Gilles Durant de la Bergerie Colliginous trenchancy, Tonight I was given a pretty hard-to-read copy of this bataille air de cour based on Une Jeune Filette. I'm to play the lute part (it fits fine on a renlute in G) I wonder if anyone has a fair copy, or perhaps a well-set PDF of this piece? If not, now that I've learned Django well enough, I'll set it myself, but with all the other music I have to master in the next week, I'd appreciate not having to retypeset this one as well. Ray To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
