Thank you, thank you for this piece. I have been fascinated with it for quite a while and about a year ago asked the list if anyone knew where to find it. Ron Andrico got back to me with a link to the music, which he has on his web site. So now what is really interesting is the differences that Ron and Martin have in their versions of the piece. I am eagerly waiting for Dd.2.11 to be available so I can get a real copy of it to replace the fuzzy old microfilm I have, but assume at least some of the different notes come from guessing what is written at the top of the pages where it looks like there is mildew damage. The biggest difference between the 2 versions is measure 31, which was probably unreadable. The other differences are mostly from places where Holmes wrote notes on the lines instead of in the spaces and Ron and Martin chose a line above or below each other. About those ornaments - Martin wrote THE article on ornament in the 1996 The Lute "The Interpretation of Sings for Graces in English Lute Music," pp37-84. You can easily buy a copy of it from the Lute Society (UK)'s web site. It's also interesting that Martin has named it "Dump" rather than "Ground." It looks like it's loosely built on a 6 measure chord progression to me, and some of the Dumps have shorter, sometimes only 2 chord grounds. If you want to look at other lute grounds there is one on with web site [1]www.groundsanddivisions.info from the Euing manuscript, and there is one very strange one for bandora that I transcribed for lute in my article on bandora music. That one is 2 variations on 2 different chord progressions stuck together and I am beginning to think it might be a bass part from an ensemble piece. Nancy At 08:34 AM 10/16/2010, Martin Shepherd wrote:
With apologies for the long gap in this series, a new piece of the month has finally escaped from my music room, played on a new lute after Maler (67cm) strung entirely in gut. [2]http://www.luteshop.co.uk/month/pieceofthemonth.htm You'll want to play this piece (you'll probably also want to play the lute, but sorry it belongs to somebody else!). Best wishes, Martin To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web sites - [4]www.nancycarlinassociates.com [5]www.groundsanddivisions.info Representing: FROM WALES - Crasdant & Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - Jez Lowe & Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The Venere Lute Quartet, The Good Pennyworths & Morrongiello & Young Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - [6]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org -- References 1. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 2. http://www.luteshop.co.uk/month/pieceofthemonth.htm 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 5. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 6. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/