Dear David,
When you see the strict alternation of the dots above
and below successive notes in the few early sources
where it is used, the intention is very clear that it
represents right hand thumb and forefinger. It's really
not plausible that in a running passage every other note
has an ornamen
Dear Caroline,
If you mean historical sources, you need
Morley's 'Plaine and Easie Introduction to
Practical Music,' or John Dowland's English
translation of the 'Micrologous' of Andreas
Ornithoparchus. The latter is (or was) available
in facsimile, I think from Dover editions, and the
former is av
Dear Marc,
There is an excellent article by Stephen Barber in
one of the Lute Society journals from the 1980's
about how to make solid moulds -(sorry I don't have
the reference to hand, but I will look it up for you later).
Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris use solid moulds exclusively
for their ins
Dear Martyn,
There is a simplified free version of Finale called 'Notepad'
which is worth trying - see www.finalemusic.com
Best wishes,
Denys
Quoting Martyn Hodgson :
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>I'm sorry for introducing a non-lute note into these communications,
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Dear Ed,
I feel sure that 'ways be foul' means that the roads
(such as they were in those days)were hard to travel on
due to the weather. So 'blood is nipp'd' is, I think,
a straightforward reference to the cold. 'Roasted crabs'
are crab apples, not the crustaceans! This is all
straightforward wor
Dear Luca and All,
Munich Ms. 266 is indeed a very important manuscript. For those who are
interested in it, it's worth knowing that the music it contains is not all
in the form of complete and ready to play settings. A number of the works
by Marco Dall'Aquila are incomplete and require reconstruc
Hi Frank,
I haven't tried reconstructing the Spinacino duets, but I have reconstructed
intabulations from the Thibault manuscript and studied the Dalza print in
detail. The first thing to remember about both Spinacino and Dalza is the
presence of a considerable number of printing errors. Both Ma
