Indeed, Sarge!
That's why I enjoy playing from your tabs so much.
Your layout is most readable and offers a calm picture.
Don't change anything, it's great.
On 04.08.20 17:18, Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. wrote:
Thanks, David.
Arguably, that kind of a c could be easily confused with an r, but as r
is rarely, if ever, seen in lute tab (has anyone ever seen it?), this
isn't a problem.
I like the "r" form of the letter c because it is clear and
unambiguous. Also because I cut my teeth on Varietie and on English
lute mss. In early days, I used to hand-copy a lot of sources and,
having terrible handwriting, I used the "r" style for clarity.
I also find tab letters on spaces easier to read because the ciphers
are not transected by a line. And, yes, this makes it easier to add
readable fingerings.
It's all about clarity and readability.
--Sarge
On 8/4/2020 02:17, David Van Edwards wrote:
Martin is right, this is just the standard English way of writing C
in all sorts of contexts not just lute tablature.
To illustrate I've uploaded a small section of an English will from
1574 which reads "mercy to receive" and in it you can see the normal
form of the R as well as the C and the E
[1]https://www.vanedwards.co.uk/R%20for%20C.htm
Best wishes,
David
At 08:34 +0200 4/8/20, Martin Shepherd wrote:
The "r" is in most English lute MSS and in all the lute song prints
as well. In fact it's not an "r" at all, just another way of writing
"c".
My biggest readability complaint is writing the letters on the lines
rather than between them - a habit which seems to have become quite
common with some modern editors of lute music. And just to open up a
few more worms, I find French tablature very convenient because
(although I read all kinds of tab fluently) I can write in
fingerings, which can get very confusing in Italian tab.
M
On 04/08/2020 02:27, T.J. Sellari wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Tristan von Neumann [2]<[1]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:14 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: e vs c
To: [[3]2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu [4]<[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Ah yes. I forgot about those.
I hate English prints. As if they were deliberately trying to
make
things unreadable.
Morlaye is the best imho.
On 04.08.20 01:30, Denys Stephens wrote:
> Dear Sean & Tristan, the Robert Dowland âVarietie of lute
lessons'
and Barley's âNew book of tablature' both have âr' for âc'
although the
latter is engraved rather than typeset. I suspect that the
Varietie of
lute lessons may have had an undue influence in modern times
because it
was the first facsimile that many of us who were involved in
lute music
in those days owned in the Scott edition.
> Best wishes, Denys
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 4 Aug 2020, at 00:02, Tristan von Neumann
[5]<[4]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Good question Sean...
>>
>> I think there's no real development in this.
>>
>> For example, Fuhrmann's Testudo Gallica&Germanica uses
"on-line"
fonts,
>> and "c".
>>
>> This is very annoying sometimes if you want to play from the
facsimile...
>>
>> In manuscripts, Marsh Lute Book uses c, it's often very
confusing
next
>> to the e.
>>
>> French "above line" prints from earlier decades (Morlaye, Le
Roy)
also
>> use c but I find those prints very readable.
>>
>> I don't recall "r" in prints, but maybe I missed some.
>>
>>
>>> On 04.08.20 00:56, Sean Smith wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> There's a long tradition of scribing the cipher 'r' in
place
of 'c' in
>>> manuscripts of lute tablature. It's quick and easy and
serves
to
>>> differentiate a 'c' from an 'e'. My question is, did
this
carry over
>>> into historic printed tablatures with standardized
typefaces?
Can
>>> anyone suggest examples? Lute, guitar, mandora, etc?
>>> I don't recall any in Renaissance prints--tho I could
easily
be
>>> wrong--but I know I don't have enough experience with
baroque
>>> tablatures!
>>> Tia, Sean
>>>
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>>>
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Actually, the letter that looks like an "r" is actually a "c" in
English secretary hand. That's probably why the "r" is featured
in
English sources.
If you scroll down to the chart of miniscule letters here
[6][7]http://morristownnhpmuseum.blogspot.com/2016/10/paleography-fo
r-ever
yone-cracking-old.html you'll see various form(s) of c.
Tom
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