> if memory serves, we have been talking about one interesting question of interpreting > German tabulature: when (especially) Hans Newsidler repeated a short note after > longer one, did he really mean repeating the pluck, or did he thus just in this way > express a note with a dot? Did he mean just a tie? > > An example (translated to French tabulature) (use monospace!): > > |\ |\\ |\ > | | | > | | | > __a_____a__a__c__d_______ > _____|______________|____ > _____|__b________b__|____ > __c__|__c________c__|____ ... > _____|______________|____ > _____|______________|____ > > > So, should or shouldn't the top string third a be plucked or not? I vote that you should > not repeat the pluck!
If you look at the final clause (5 t 5), you will see that Newsidler knew and wrote held notes. I take that as an argument against the notion that he wrote a note but didn't mean it to be played but to be held. Another argument might be that if you omit the "repeated" note you can hardly explain why you hit the following treble note with the index, and that is an important matter in his method. So I vote for playing the "repeated" note. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
