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> From: Mathias Rösel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: versions of Tombeau do Mezangeau > Date: April 21, 2014 at 6:11:14 AM EDT > To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > >> Not only did Mesangeau use this tuning a lot. This piece has many > stylistic traits >> characteristic of him. >> I suggest he could well have been the composer. Otherwise someone else has >> deliberately cited from his work. Anyway Tombeau de Mesangeau might mean >> Tombeau by Mesangeau as well as Tombeau for Mesangeau. If my suggestion is >> right, this tombeau would predate the one composed by Ennemond Gaultier. >> Lex > > Would be funny, though. Correct me if I'm wrong, I was thinking that > tombeaux in the 17th century were composed for real deceased persons, and > not just like that as a stylistic exercise like in the 20th/21st centuries. > Unless it be clear for whom this tombeau was penned other than for late > Mesangeau, I'd assume it was written at the occasion of Mesangeau's obituary > by someone else. > > Mathias > So who wrote the other pieces in VM7 6211 ? Has someone published an analysis? Wayne > > >>>>> according to Peter's wonderful database, 3 have been found: >>>>> >>>>> F-Pn ms. Vm7 6211, 31v >>>> http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52503776m/f66.image >>>> >>>> That's a different piece, in one of the transistor tunings :-) May be >>>> BY Mezangeau. >>> >>> That is the flat tuning, (like Lester) which Mesangeau did use a lot. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
