Thank you Arto.
The 1584 book is paginated running to page no. 182. Pages 120 through to 175
contain only tablature with no text other than titles of the pieces: - page 155
has an intabulation of 'Non ved'il mondo'; - page 162 of 'Caronte' and 'Mentre
di poggia'. In short, as you suggest,
Some of you may wish to know that the English translation by Carol
MacClintock of Vincenzo Galilei's _Fronimo (1584),_ American Institute of
Musicology, Musicological Studies and Documents, 39 (1985), is still
available. My catalogue lists it for $64. AIM publications are
distributed by A-R
Thank you Daniel.
So, as I understand it, the sole piece of HISTORICAL evidence is from Vincenzo
Galilei's 'Fromino Dialogo' (1568,1584) translated by MacClintock (AIM 1985)
as:
..Now I come to the matter of 'tastini' which lately some people seek to
introduce to remove some of the
Dear Martyn and all
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 12:20, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
So, as I understand it, the sole piece of HISTORICAL evidence is from
Vincenzo Galilei's 'Fromino Dialogo' (1568,1584) translated by
MacClintock (AIM 1985) as:
..Now I come to the matter of 'tastini' which lately
- hardly, I suggest, a convincing case for
their adoption in modern times.
No, the case for their adoption in modern times is getting an F# instead
of a Gb and a C# instead of a Db in meantone tuning! For that, I am
willing to have Gallilei's ghost stare dissaprovingly at me.
To get on or
No Daniel, it's not just G I'm afraid but on the basis of historical evidence,
or rather lack of it, most other early lutenists. If we are serious about
period performance it is important we pay proper regard to what they wld have
expected based on the evidence and not our personal
At 06:48 AM 4/5/2005, Daniel Shoskes wrote:
- hardly, I suggest, a convincing case for
their adoption in modern times.
No, the case for their adoption in modern times is getting an F# instead
of a Gb and a C# instead of a Db in meantone tuning! For that, I am
willing to have Gallilei's ghost
Dear Martyn,
Yes, I would be most grateful for the relevant page numbers in the
original edition(s) -1568 and/or 1584.
The MacClintoc translation/edition is of the 1584 version. If I interprete
the listings of contents right, the talk about uneven fret placement and
tastini starts in page
