Dear Susanne, I don't understand your point here. The answer to your question is in the contrantunpal writing itself : Francesco imitates his initial motive note for note (2nd and 3rd bars) and he doesn't use an "upbeat" to do that, which certainly means that he intended it exactly like it is, otherwise, he would have introduced his countermotive on the upbeat too. I like this piece a lot and it stands very well as it is, imho!
All the best, Jean-Marie ================================= == En réponse au message du 24-11-2010, 10:53:43 == > > Dear lute lovers, > > > > What are your opinions about the beginning of Francesco da Milano - > Fantasia Ness 33 regarding the note value of the first note of the > first motif? > > > > My thoughts at the moment are that maybe it happened like this: > Francesco wrote the piece without bar lines. When they tried to print > it with bar lines it was not possible or not common to print only an > upbeat / a bar of half length. So they changed the rhythm to a very > common pattern so the motif could now fit into one bar. > > > > Could that be possible? Maybe that happened with other pieces as well? > > > > Or maybe Francesco "had to" compose it like this because no piece like > a fantasia or ricercar would start with an upbeat? > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Susanne > > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > ========================================
