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From: Tristan von Neumann <[1]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:14 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: e vs c
To: [2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu <[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Ah yes. I forgot about those.
I hate English prints. As if they
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 ‘Varietie of lute lessons’ and Barley’s
‘New book of tablature’
Looking back, it was one of my first, too. I confess it's been a while
since it's seen daylight!
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:33 PM Denys Stephens
<[1]denyssteph...@sky.com> wrote:
Dear Sean & Tristan, the Robert Dowland âVarietie of lute lessons'
and Barley's âNew book of
Dear Sean & Tristan, the Robert Dowland ‘Varietie of lute lessons’ and Barley’s
‘New book of tablature’ both have ‘r’ for ‘c’ 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
Aha! Thanks, Dmitri!
One person has privately suggested it's not an 'r' but a 'gamma'.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:17 PM Dmitry Medvedev
<[1]d.p.medve...@gmail.com> wrote:
One that comes to mind - Robert Dowland: A Varietie of Lute Lessons.
Dmitry
On 8/3/2020 6:56 PM,
Varietie uses r. This seems to have been an English improvement.
Continental Mertel f. ex is notorious for using and confusing c and
e
G.
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One that comes to mind - Robert Dowland: A Varietie of Lute Lessons.
Dmitry
On 8/3/2020 6:56 PM, 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
I agree, T., there are certainly prints where I wish they had!
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:05 PM Tristan von Neumann
<[1]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote:
Good question Sean...
I think there's no real development in this.
For example, Fuhrmann's Testudo Gallica uses "on-line"
Good question Sean...
I think there's no real development in this.
For example, Fuhrmann's Testudo Gallica 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.
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
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