Peacock and Dixon agree on this strain - we should perhaps think of a (dissonant) e resolving down on to the d of a G major tonic chord, as in 'All the Night'.
John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu Sent: 10 November 2010 09:10 To: Gibbons, John; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: 'My Deary sits ower late up' John Gibbons wrote: >the reprint edition has a typo in the > penultimate strain, the 1st bar beginning > > g/f/|egB egB... > > instead of > > g/f/|egd egB ... > > as in Peacock itself - see FARNE or the facsimile. > > The typo gives an e minor flavour which doesn't belong, I feel. My intuition FWIW and feeling for music tell me John is right. So do my eyes when I see the facsimile. My intellect (or what passes for one) tells me that the motivic skeleton, for want of a better term, is ed-bg. The manuscript preserves motivic integrity. c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
