I'll second that! It's not difficult read both French and Italian tab and
it is self defeating to turn Italian tab upside down because you may
eventually have to unlearn everything you've got used to.
German tab is a bit more difficult.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
To: "Edward Mast" <nedma...@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Facsimiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Mast" <nedma...@aol.com>
To: "vance wood" <vancew...@wowway.com>
Cc: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Facsimiles
What you say makes good sense, Vance.
Ned
On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:39 PM, vance wood wrote:
I think trying to make an argument that one form of tab. is better than
another is both counter-productive and epistemologically unsound. The
fact will in the end remain, that a serious Lute student will have to be
at the least familiar with Italian, French and German tab (if not
fluent) unless they find themselves in the unenviable position of having
to trust on a third party to translate, one to the other, or do it
themselves. Myself; I am not fluent in German tab but I can sight read
both French and Italian equally well, or poorly depending on your
assessment of my abilities. It is for this reason I believe it is best
to learn as much as possible from facsimiles and or photo copies of
original materials rather than depend on the work modern scholars, or
publishers, who may or may not have supplied their opinions or rendered
their own mistakes. Not to demean these efforts but to simply state
that the original source is often better for educational purposes than
the il!
luminated modern version.
----- Original Message ----- From: <dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: "Sauvage Valéry" <sauvag...@orange.fr>
Cc: "'Sean Smith'" <lutesm...@mac.com>; "'lute-cs.dartmouth.edu'"
<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:05 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Facsimiles
A student should learn italian tab
as soon as possible, too late they say, oh, I do prefer french tab...)
I found it difficult to read both, and began with 'french-like' forms
(French with numerals as well as french with letters).
Each of the publishers had arguments for their form, all of them
entirely
rational, none of them conclusive. I find single-glyph symbols easier
to
work with, and since the number of frets obliges two-glyph symbols with
numerals (eg, 14, 15 .. 25), but has single-glyph symbols in the
alfabet,
there is an argument which slightly favors the use of letters; but
nothing
really compelling to favor italian-ordered vs french-ordered layout.
chacun à son goût...
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Dana Emery
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