Well yes, actually. There is a complete listing of the pieces in the manuscript and the attributionw whenever possible in "Sources Manuscrites en Tablature, luth et théorbe, Catalogue descriptif" Editions V. Koerner : Baden Baden et Bouxwiller, 1991. Ms 6211 is presented on pages 198 - 141 by Monique Rollin.
The authors are the two Gaultiers, Dubut, Dupré, Emond, Lamrare Le Gras, Vincent, Bouvier and anonymous... There are two Tombeaux de Mésangeau. 1 on f° 8v - 9 (called Allemande du vieux gautier, D minor tuning) and the other one ob f° 31v - 32 , flat tuning) Best, Jean-Marie -------------- > > >Begin forwarded message: > >> 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 >> > > >
