04 Jul 03 - 03:23 PM (#976856) Subject: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Lutenist I am an English lutenist in possession of some lovely Scottish (and English) tunes in the Balcarres lute book, c. 1700. One of them of Prince's Air, which I know neither as English or Scottish traditional. Any clues? Does Playford in 'The Division Violin', 1685, 'Apollo's Banquet', 1670, or 'Original Scotch-Tunes', 1700 and 1701 (none of which I own), have a tune of this name? |
04 Jul 03 - 03:40 PM (#976866) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST The title is practically a generic one. Can you give a stressed note code, or an ABC of the tune? The Balcarries lute MS is quite rare and there is very little in the line of schollarly account of it. I have most of the tunes from it, but in lute tablature, which I can't read. |
04 Jul 03 - 03:50 PM (#976872) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Lutenist I don't know what a stressed note code is! I could give the notes and note values, if that helps. |
04 Jul 03 - 04:02 PM (#976879) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST I find I do have "The Prices Air" in lute tablature from Balcarries, but can't read it. Give the notes and time, and I can convert to an ABC and displsy the tune in modern notation. From that I can make the stessed note code and compare with those in an extensive collection of 17th century tunes. |
04 Jul 03 - 04:43 PM (#976900) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Guest I don't want to mislead your; this is s long shot. Many song and instrumental tunes were composed for private entertainments of some nobleman. As such they were somtines copied into a manuscript, but often weren't of sufficient popularity to justify publication and were never printed. There is no compendium of unpublished tunes, so the probabliilty is that I won't be able to identify the tune.
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13 Jul 03 - 03:24 PM (#982461) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Lutenist Yes, I am working from Darsie's selection. I think Balcarres MS is neglected because lutenists, usually classically trained, are not often too interested in trad. material on the one hand, and on the other, folkies aren't too interested in the lute and I've never met a guitarist who can read lute tab. A shame. |
13 Jul 03 - 04:42 PM (#982494) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Guest We may have to wait a bit. One of the co-editors of EASMES has the contents of the Balcarries MS, but it's not yet been added to the enormous collection at: EASMES There is no "Princes Air" listed there (but there are several other "Prince's xxx"). |
13 Jul 03 - 06:32 PM (#982526) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Guest This crazy digital world. Someone changed from EASMES in the URL above to Easmes, and the link above collapsed. Let's try the new URL with the new lower case letters Easmes |
14 Jul 03 - 01:16 AM (#982722) Subject: RE: Prince's air (Scott? Playford?) info pls From: GUEST,Guest That wrong URL was entirely my fault. The situation is complicated. A pulication of the complete MS is being pursued, but some of the contents of the Balcarries MS haven't yet been translated into modern tablature. |