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Thread #100398   Message #2012620
Posted By: GUEST,Ian cookieless
31-Mar-07 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: Translation from Italian, please
Subject: Translation from Italian, please
I am a lute player who does not speak Italian, but I would like to play a piece from Cesare Negri, 'Nouve inventioni di balli' of 1604, a dance manual with lute music. I have this in a facsimile of the original. With most pieces in the book the title of the music is obvious, but not here. Could someone please translate this from 17th century Italian (so some spellngs may be different to modern Italian, but I hope easy enough for a modern Italian speaker) or at least point out which part is the title? In some places I have difficulty discerning 'f's from 's's and this will no doubt show! - and sometimes the modern 'v' was a 'u':

"La Musica della sonata con l'Intauolatura di liuto del detto gratioso. A due parti & si sanno (fanno?) due volte per parte, fino al fine del ballo."