Hi Frank, I haven't tried reconstructing the Spinacino duets, but I have reconstructed intabulations from the Thibault manuscript and studied the Dalza print in detail. The first thing to remember about both Spinacino and Dalza is the presence of a considerable number of printing errors. Both Martin Shepherd and I have written about that in the past, looking at the issue of which discordant sounds are intentional and which are typographic mistakes. There isn't an easy answer, but it's an issue that needs to be considered when creating an edition of music from those prints. If you look carefully you can spot manuscript corrections to some of the errors in both the Spinacino and Dalza prints. Martin and I compared all three surviving copies of the Dalza print which showed that the corrections were made in Petrucci's workshop and not by a subsequent owner. For those interested, there are lists of the early corrections in Stanley Boorman's superb Catalogue Raisonne of Petrucci's work. Th! e curious thing in Dalza is that many glaringly obvious typographic errors were not corrected, which suggests that the same may be true in the Spinacino print. When working on an intabulation of a vocal composition it always makes sense to study the original if it's available, and ideally make your own lute intabulation from it. The points of coincidence and diversion from the original in an early intabulation can then be seen. We don't of course know if we are looking at the same reading of the original vocal piece that the early intabulator had (in this case Spinacino), but it does help a lot in getting a feel for how close the intabulation is to the original. When you do this It sometimes becomes easier to spot where mistakes were made in the intabulation. I appreciate it's a lot of work to go through this process, but it does give a much clearer idea of what the intabulator was doing. It's also helpful to find, if available, examples of what other modern musicians have ! done with the same pieces. I have the feeling that all or most! of the Spinacino duets are included on Karl-Ernst Shroder & Crawford Young's wonderful album 'Amours amours amours.' I don't remember hearing any extreme dissonances on that album. I imagine that they would have made their own performing editions from the print in preparation for the recording. Hope this helps. Best wishes, Denys
-----Original Message----- From: lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu <lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> On Behalf Of Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. Sent: 20 June 2020 20:29 To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: A strange "error" in Maestro I am working on an edition of Spinacino v.1 (1507) and have run across these 2 extremely dissonant duets. I am not personally a big fan of gratuitous dissonance (diabolus in musica). Dissonance that serves a purpose, as in Dowland, yes. Dissonance as a passing note, yes. Dissonance as a cadential suspension, yes. But minor second intervals on downbeats, not so much. I would like to "correct" these duet parts so they harmonize instead of "cacophonizing" with each other, but have no idea where to begin. Has anyone tried to do this? If I can't find a harmonious solution, I will just leave the duets as is, though I hate to punt like that, because who will want to play them as written (except maybe Schräder, and he is no longer with us)? --Sarge On 10/14/2019 23:48, Alain Veylit wrote: I cannot read this thread without thinking about Spinacino's duets, particularly the setting of Ghiselin's Jolis amours: are the notes wrong or is it our ears? Yet, I had found a very convincing rendition of that duet a while ago on the Net, played as printed 500 years ago (already!) -- I believe Karl-Ernst Schröder was on one of the 2 lutes -- Helas, I can no longer find that particular recording on the Internet any longer. One trick they used to make the half-tone clashes sound better was to play the piece very fast. It works. Spinacino's "J'ay pris amours" is still there on YouTube but it is less striking as an example of utter dissonance to modern ears - see [1][1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljcq1ETbXkI -- Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. ([2]sa...@gerbode.net) 11132 Dell Ave Forestville, CA 95436-9491 Home phone: 707-820-1759 Website: [3]http://www.gerbode.net "The map may not be the territory, but it's all we've got." -- References 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljcq1ETbXkI 2. mailto:sa...@gerbode.net 3. http://www.gerbode.net/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com