That's probably what you get if you give an ape a laptop with a tab generator instead of a typewriter.
Stephan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von WALSH STUART Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. März 2015 09:55 An: Gary R. Boye; AJN; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Two alfabeto prints (Pesaro Abbatessa) New UR Research Publications for dates: 01/21/2015 - 01/22/2015 > The relationship of this book to other Pesaro tablatures is complex; I > hope to publish a web page with information on them soon. I visited > Rochester in November 2013 and moved these two tablatures and a few > other things up in the queue; it took them awhile but they came up in > January. > > As for quality of music, well, it's Pesaro. I keep waiting for him to > find his voice and be more than historically interesting, but in vain > . . . But I wouldn't say it is unplayable, on the whole, just "clunky" > (to use a non-musicological term). > > Gary > I think that, for example, some early Granata and Coriandoli might be described as "clunky" (= meagre, thin, lacking!?) but Pesaro's mixed tabs don't even offer the hope of being reconstructed to "clunky". Here are a couple of pieces from Lo Scrigno Armonico: http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/musicp2.jpg http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/musicp3.jpg I'm happy to be proved wrong. But it does seem very strange fare to actually publish. I put up some pics from Lo Scrigno years ago: http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Pesori/ Could it be that people bought the book because it looked impressive? Stuart --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
