David, This was something I started, and Bernd Haegemann and Arthur Ness reached the conclusion you cite. Thank you all very much!
I played around with the music yesterday and I concluded that it does indeed seem to make sense. I would love to see the scanned material you mention, if it's not too much trouble. Peter. On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, David van Ooijen wrote: > I forgot who started this, but to whomever it concerns, the Novello > Purcell Society edition has this to say: > Slashed C after C and slashed inverted C after slashed C imply 'twice > as fast'. Slashed inverted C after C should imply 'four times as fast' > but can mean 'twice as fast'. [...] Where Purcell used different > time-signatures he usually expected different tempi; the return of the > same time-signature often implies a return of the same tempo, though > there were not enough different time-signatures available to him for > this alwys to be the case. [...] Unfortunately, Purcell's care in > indicating tempo relationships is disturbed by the song-books which > nearly always substitute slashed C for Purcell's Cs. > > There's more, but I think this sums it up nicely. > > The notes have more to say on the problems in the tempo relations (the > editor believes the primary source is not complete). If you're > interested, I can scan the (short) notes, as well as the facsimile in > the Theater of Music (The Second Book 1685). > > David > > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > the next auto-quote is: The United States currently ranks 22nd in the percentage of its gross national income devoted to foreign aid - the lowest of any industrial nation. (William Raspberry) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
