This business about the imagined clefs is another thing that Hector
Sequora explains in quite a bit of detail in his dissertation on
Paston.
Nancy
At 02:29 PM 12/4/2011, A. J. Ness wrote:
They indicate the pitch of the indicated course. In other words,
guideposts for the arrangement of hexachors opn the lute
fingerboatrd.
Apparently lutenists could imagine their instrument as being
"tuned" in
any number of nominal pitches. It is rather easy when one
"thinks" in
hexachords. It makes transposition on the lute easy, as well.
That's
the point of Ward's article that David Tayler cites. It is
reprinted
in the JLSA (vol. 15 [1982]: 27ff.).
----- Original Message -----
From: [1]Frank A. Gerbode, M.D.
To: [2]Art Ness
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 2:39 PM
Subject: tab clefs
I think I may have asked you this before. If so, apologies.
I just finished work on [3]El Parnasso, and now I am taking
another
look at Orphenica Lyra with a view to supplying missing data
(including indicating the red notes with a dot as in Daza) on
these
pieces and have encountered these two marks (attached).
Can you tell me their significance? My guess is that the
triple
mark signifies an "F clef" and the double one a "C clef",
labeling
the course they are on in that manner. I don't know for sure
that
is right, and whether these refer only to the open string or to
the
first melody note on that string. Or maybe they signify fa and
ut
rather than Fefaut and Cesolfaut.
Any help you could give would be much appreciated.
I hope all is well with you. It's been family madness around
here --
three Thanksgiving dinners, followed by several days of
Thanksgiving
leftovers. I'm ready to give up turkey for another year.
--Sarge
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