Dear All,
I am sure Arthur will remember this, but it may be of interest to
others that that this inaccuracy in the tuning instructions for the
Judentanz
led to one of the great faux pas of lute musicology. Many years ago the
eminent musicologist Willi Apel took the instructions at face value and
Hi,
Now, with a little help and reading through the facsimile, I believe
that this should be a more correct version. As said, tune the 5th and
4th courses to D and leave 3rd 2nd and 1st courses as they are. So
it's to be played on a five course lute... Hmmm... could be quite an
old piece then
Hallo Göran,
thank you for your helpful work! That was a quick one!
Best regards
Hermann
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Oops! Stupid me. I didn't see that everything repeats from the 6th
fret. I expected altered symbols for the higher notes. Shows you how
often I read German tab. blush It makes more sense in the higher
position.
On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Ed Durbrow wrote:
So are there 2 versions of the
Yes,that's from Apel's book on notation, where the facsimile appears also. I
shudder to think how many grad students transcribed that piece.
Thousands.
Of course, it was Adolf Koczirz who first drew attention to the supposed
bi-tonality. And he didn't get the tuning of the lower courses
Yes,that's from Apel's book on notation, where the facsimile appears also. I
shudder to think how many grad students transcribed that piece.
Thousands.
Of course, it was Adolf Koczirz who first drew attention to the supposed
bi-tonality. And he didn't get the tuning of the lower courses
Dear Stewart,
Stewart McCoy wrote:
Dear Arthur,
The Jew's Dance is in Dd.3.18, etc., i.e. the Cambridge Consort
manuscripts. It's really a Bergamasca, which is quite different from
Newsidler's piece, but there is no reason why they should be the
same. No doubt Jews were associated with
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