Well to date I have only read half the introduction.
As far as I can see from a quick look, the chords for "Tirinto mio" are
taken from Stefani and a little known book by Millioni (not the guitar
tutors of 1627) which includes lyrics only with alfabeto. He is
comparing the two.
But until I have read it all I must reserve judgement.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: [1]Martyn Hodgson
To: [2]Monica Hall
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: alfabeto
As you said, I just had to be patient. But at 311 pages it took 15mins
whereas the facsimile of three Lully operas (at around 200) I did a
short time before only took 3!
It certainly looks interesting with some good pics but from a brief
scan I can't see if it tells us much that isn't already generally
acknowledged. But it's good to have such a seemingly comprhensive (?)
work. I might see if some of the automatic translators come up with
something which can be used as a basis for undertanding the text.
He seems to start with intabulations for lute of vocal compositions - I
suppose making some sort of link with the invention of alfabeto as a
convenient shorthand but , since my French is not good, I can't be
sure.
However, here he does miss an important element : he makes no mention
of the Moulinie guitar settings (at least nothing in the Figs or index)
which, in my view, present a better case for the invention of a
shorthand since Moulinie has often to intabulate succesive identical
chords many times and such an example would clearly well illustrate the
advantages of a shorthand notation to represent common chords (and to
include strum direction signs).
I've not been able to wade through much of it but in my quick skim
picked out a few things which seem to me debatable (tho he might
explain all somewhere else). For example : Fig. Cxxix : Transcription
de << Tirinto mio >> de Stefani 1620, p. 4, avec les accords de
Millioni 1627. In this he puts in the chords (how/from which source? )
and compares with a contemporary guitar alfabeto version I think (?) to
show that the alfabeto chords don't strictly follow every twist and
turn of the harmony. But I disagree with the chords he chooses - I
suspect that even at this date embryonic tonalism would have meant the
second chord he thinks of as Am would have probably been a first
inversion F (leading to the following Bb chord). Though my French is so
rusty that I can't be sure this isn't covered.
But a work worthy of some effort on my part I think............. maybe
for dark winter evenings
Thanks for passing it on Martyn
--- On Sat, 2/7/11, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: alfabeto
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Saturday, 2 July, 2011, 17:04
I recieved this information from Aidan O'Donnell about his dissertation
on alfabeto songs if anyone is interested. Haven't read myself
yet. It is in French.
Regards
Monica
Just a quick email to say that my alfabeto PhD is online at
>
> [3]http://athirdfloorproduction.com/alfabeto/
>
> It's in French, but there's a good deal on concordances and quite a
> few sources in images.
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