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Re: [Denemo-devel] Lute version of pavan
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Jeremiah Benham |
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Re: [Denemo-devel] Lute version of pavan |
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Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:21:12 -0600 |
I am not an expert on lute notation but that //a would mean the second theorbo
string. This was intended for a theorbo lute. The theorbo strings are not
fretted and are usually follow a scale. So if the lowest lute note is a G, then
/a would be f or f#, and //a would mean e.
Jeremiah
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Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 18:47 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>> I attach a pdf of the Pavana Dolorosa extracted from the tablature
>> transcribed by G. Furhmann
>> It seems that (some of?) the low string(s) are not tuned as expected,
>> since low D appears in C chords (etc.?).
>I have located the place in Fuhrmann's transcription (see attached
>screenshot). The notatation is //a on the lowest space, is this
>plausibly C not D???
>
>Richard
>
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>> Can anyone throw any light on this? Specifically the step from tab to
>> lilypond must involve some specification of the tuning - who provides
>> this?
>>
>> I will check in some extra Denemo goodies that I used to create this
>> from the .ly file that Edgar sent me (unfortunately, no progress on
>> lilypond import itself, it falls over on easy to skip things, like
>> tenuto markings and slurs...)
>>
>> Richard
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