Dear Rainer, Well spotted. I vaguely remember noticing this, when I played through the pieces in the manuscript. It is difficult to know whether the scribe's eye slipped from one piece to another in his exemplar, or if his memory slipped from one piece to another. According to Joachim Lüdtke, the editor of the Tree Edition facsimile, the manuscript dates from about 1618-1622. That's a few years after Wilson's Wild and Mrs Winter's Jump were in circulation, and so I suppose there was time for the pieces to get mangled. I notice that the next piece in the manuscript, a setting of Dowland's Fortune, is wide of the mark, for example, losing the characteristic sharpened 4th over the subdominant, which adds so much pathos.
For those who haven't yet acquired the facsimile, here is the Currant from pages 12-13: |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ | | | |. |\ | | | _a___f__a_____________________________a___f__a___ ___|______|_c_____d_|_c__a____|_a_______|______|_ ___|______|_d__d____|_d_____d_|_c_______|______|_ ___|______|_________|_________|_c__c____|______|_ ___|_a____|_a_____c_|_a_______|_________|_a____|_ ___|______|_________|_________|_a_______|______|_ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ | |. |\ | |. | __________________________________a___a__c__a___ _c_____c_|_a_______|_____||_c__d__c_|_c_______|_ _d__d__d_|_c__d__c_|_d___||_d_____d_|_d_______|_ _________|_c_______|_____||_________|_________|_ _a_____a_|_________|_a___||_a_____a_|_a_______|_ _________|_a_______|_____||_________|_______e_|_ |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ | |\ | | | | _c__f___e________f__a______a________c_________ ______|____f__||_______c_|_c__c___|_a__d__a_|_ ______|_______||_________|_d____d_|_a_______|_ ______|_______||_________|________|_________|_ ______|_______||_a_______|_a______|_c_______|_ _c____|_a_____||_________|________|_________|_ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ | |\ | |\ |\ |\ |\ | | | | | | |. |\ | | _h__e__a___f__a___f__a___c__a_________________ _a_______|______|______|_______d_|_c_____||___ _________|______|______|_________|_d__d__||___ _________|______|______|_a_______|_______||___ _________|_a____|_a__e_|_______c_|_a_____||___ _a_______|______|______|_________|_______||___ I hope people might be encouraged to buy the facsimile. The pieces are about the same standard as this Currant, so not too demanding technically. Best wishes for the New Year, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "adS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:29 PM Subject: [LUTE] A Dowland "concordance" > Dear lute netters, > > In the "von Harling" lute book (= Ratsbuecherei Lueneburg, Mus. ant. pract. > 2000) is a piece "Currant" on pages 12-13 which is a strange mixture of > Wilson's Wilde and John Dowland's Mrs. Winter's Jump. > > The first two strains are from Wilson's Wilde and the third one is drawn from > Dowland's piece. > > Since in both pieces the last two bars of the second strains are very similar > the scribe may have copied from a source where the pieces appear one after the > other and he accidently mixed up the two pieces(?). > > > Rainer aus dem Spring To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
