Yes . . . I followed right along there and I went through this book
page-by-page in Rochester. Pesori, Pesori, Pesori . . .
To me clunky = amateurish (an Americanism, I guess).
Some funny pictures in it though ;-)
Gary
On 3/4/2015 4:04 AM, WALSH STUART wrote:
Pesori not Pesaro, indeed...
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
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