Good morning, Gary!
The Polish music scholar Alexander Polinski owned at leasttwo
manuscripts of lute music. One foundits way to the library of Countess
Thibault (MS VII) and passed to the BibliothA"quenationale, RA(c)s Vmc
ms. 61.
The other one which dates around 1600 was about 34 folios and contained
many Polishdances and songs, among other things. Its Polish origins
have never beenquestioned. It was destroyed in WW_II, but Maria
Szczepanska (d. 1962) made acopy. A facsimile page from the original
appears in Polinski's history ofPolish music and the two tablature
pieces ("Taniec" and "Rygodan") are reproduced in Johannes Wolf,
_*Handbuch derNotationskunde*_ II (1919 / rpt 1963) p. 88.
It is inverted French tablature. That is, letters are used and the
highestcourse is represented on the lowest staff line. The term Polish
tablature has some official standing, since in someforms used
to catalog lute music for RISM, "Polish Tablature" is one of the
listedtablature choices. The form was developed at the international
lute conferenceat Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1957.
There is another manuscript in the Bavarian State Librarythat uses
Polish tablature. It is anappendix to a large printed folio book, like
Besard. (I forget the details, but John H. Robinsontold me about it
some years ago.) It is a recent acquisition. AJN
On 10/14/14, Gary R. Boye<boy...@appstate.edu> wrote:
I'll bite: IS there such a thing?
Silesian lute tablature perhaps from the 18th century???
Gary
On 10/14/2014 6:52 PM, AJN wrote:
Now, what about Polish lute tablature?
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