Peter: I agree with Rob. The entirely serviceable harmonization you are working from is the work of Kenneth Elliott, editor of _Music of Scotland 1500-1700_, from the Musica Britannica series, and originally set as a keyboard accompaniment to the orphan melody. The cittern setting offers sparse alternatives but so does the lute setting from the Balcarres ms. I've always loved this melody but the text becomes tiresome after a few stanzas of monumental self-pity. Good luck. Best wishes, Ron Andrico www.mignarda.com > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:04:58 +0000 > To: n...@pobox.com > CC: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: luteplay...@googlemail.com > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Fun with Joy > > Peter, there is nothing holy about that bass line. Here is a link to an > mp3 of the cittern version in the Robert Edwards Commonplace Book, > Dundee c.1650 [1]http://cittern.theaterofmusic.com/audio/index.html and > there is a link on the same page to the tablature (in diatonic tuning). > > > > Rob MacKillop > > 2009/1/27 Peter Nightingale <[2]n...@pobox.com> > > Dear All, > I am in the process of transcribing a version of "Joy to the Person" > for > archlute. This link points to what I am working from: > [3]http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joy_to.pdf > I guess the only original part is the melody and that all the rest > was > written by Steven Hendricks, whoever that may be. I have a problem > with > the A minor cord at the beginning of the penultimate measure of the > second > system. Originally, I had that as an E on the 8th course together > with an > open third course a, but I do not like the sound of that, and that > is > where my wild speculation starts. > The game I think I should play is that I treat Hendrick's (?) bass > line > as holy, apart from octave liberties. If one were to play a > realization > of that bass line, I do not think one would play an A minor chord in > second inversion on the first beat of measure 7, but possibly a > first > inversion C major chord would be OK given the stepwise motion of the > bass. > (This seems to have the blessing of Coprario, Simpson, Locke and > Mace, > which beats a blessing of the the Holy Trinity by one.) > So far, this is what I have in tab: > [4]http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joytab.pdf > Obviously, I am way out of my physics depth here, so please > straighten me > out. > Thanks, > Peter. > the next auto-quote is: > In violence we forget who we are. > (Mary McCarthy) > /\/\ > Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 > Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 > University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://cittern.theaterofmusic.com/audio/index.html > 2. mailto:n...@pobox.com > 3. http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joy_to.pdf > 4. http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joytab.pdf > 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > __________________________________________________________________
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