Thanks Arthur!
<<AJN>> The facsimile and raw transcription is from the Dusiacki Lute
Book (Berlin/Cracow Mus ms 40153), fol. 60v-61. Part of the problem
in reading it is that the barlines are drawn (for the most part) in
duple, whereas the dance is in triple. So a good start would be to
ignore the barlines. I think you'll find that in triple meter the
dance fits nicely into 4+4 measure phrases.
<<AJN>> Another version is indeed in the Mus Ms 40032 manuscript.
Folio 153v/p. 361. Facsimile in Kirsch, very last page (staff lines 1-3,
with varied reprise, lines 4-7). You may wish to use that one as a
guide, or use IT as a basic source. It's a better version, imho.
Very good advice! For common interest(?) I added also this facsimile to
the page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Arciliuto/
<<AJN>> By the way, the Contessa [Marchessa] di Sala was the beautiful
Barbara Sanvitale née Sanseverino. Fabritio Dentice was one of her musicians.
Interesting! Is there more knowledge of the Contessa and the Court in
those years? And who could be the writer of the beautiful ms. 40153?
Santino himself? Other pieces are actually quite clear and also
artistic, for example the Aria del Gran Duca.
Arto
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