https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Vincenzo+da+Brescia&feedformat=atomCunnan - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T23:18:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Talk:Lute_tablature&diff=20774Talk:Lute tablature2004-03-10T17:01:02Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: </p>
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<div>There are a couple of things I am not sure I agree with here. Firstly referring to this form of tablature as just tablature ignores keyboard tablature and harp tablature.<br />
Secondly, while I am aware of a few fifteenth century sources for tab, I am not sure about the legitimacy of saying that it was used in the Middle Ages. I'll do a bit of digging for that one though.<br />
Thanks for starting it though. This page is one of those things I have been meaning to get around to (along with more details on the [[troubadour]] page), but have never quite managed to. I'll upload a few images soon too.<br />
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[[User:Conrad Leviston]]<br />
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Pardon me, I'm not sure yet how to work the 'talk' feature...<br />
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You're right, I did completely forget about keyboard and harp tablature. I'm too focused on my own predilections :-) And the New Grove agrees with you, that the earliest evidence is 14th Century so 'medieval' is probably going a bit far afield.</div>Vincenzo da Bresciahttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=User:Vincenzo_da_Brescia&diff=20776User:Vincenzo da Brescia2004-03-10T16:54:32Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: Who I am :-)</p>
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<div>Well met!<br />
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I'm using my SCA persona name here of Vincenzo da Brescia, but I'm more commonly known as Vince Conaway. I am a professional musician, performing on hammered dulcimer, cittern, and a wide variety of other instruments period and modern. I've been studying period music, focusing on the cittern family of instruments, for a number of years now, and have recently begun pursuing a Master's degree in history.</div>Vincenzo da Bresciahttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=User:Vincenzo_da_Brescia&diff=3435User:Vincenzo da Brescia2004-03-10T16:54:25Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: Who I am :-)</p>
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<div>Well met!<br />
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I'm using my SCA persona name here of Vincenzo da Brescia, but I'm more commonly known as Vince Conaway. I am a professional musician, performing on hammered dulcimer, cittern, and a wide variety of other instruments period and moder. I've been studying period music, focusing on the cittern family of instruments, for a number of years now, and have recently begun pursuing a Master's degree in history.</div>Vincenzo da Bresciahttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Lute_tablature&diff=5765Lute tablature2004-03-10T16:51:16Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: </p>
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<div>'''Tablature''' was a common [[medieval]] and [[renaissance]] form of [[musical notation]] that could be written for any fretted string [[instrument]]. Often referred in modern times as "lute tablature" because of the preeminence of the lute, tablature was also used for [[viola da gamba]], [[cittern]], [[bandora]], and [[orpharion]].<br />
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Mensural notation, both modern and period, tells the reader what note to play. Tablature tells the reader which frets to press and which strings to play. This makes tablature extremely instrument-specific, and tablature is useless for an instrument using another tuning.<br />
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Tablature is, however, much easier to learn how to read than mensural notation. This is particularly so when compared to period mensural notation, where which line signified which note would change within the piece!<br />
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The standard form of tablature came with two variations, known as [[French]] and [[Italian]]. Italian tablature, like modern guitar tablature, uses numbers to represent frets. 0 is an open string, 1 is the first fret, etc... French tablature uses letters, where a is an open string, b the first fret, etc... It is important to remember, when playing such tablature, that there is no 'j' in the period [[alphabet]]!<br />
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Another difference is that French tablature, like modern guitar tablature, has the treble-most string represented by the top line of tablature. Italian, however, uses the bottom line of tablature to represent the treble-most string (modern tablature readers would consider it "upside down").<br />
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[[German]] lute tablature is completely different. Here each fret on each string is assigned a unique value, either a number or a letter. Learning this notation is tricker than standard tablature, but once the letterings for standard chords become familiar it can be read quite fluently.<br />
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Tablature is today disdained by classically-trained musicians, but in the renaissance it held a status equal to other forms of notation and was used by amateurs and professionals alike. Much of the early music publishing business (particularly the publishers [[Adrein Le Roy]] in France and [[William Barley]] in [[England]]), catering to aristocratic amateur players, consisted of printed books of tablature.<br />
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Tablature declined with the ascent of keyboard instruments and the invention of a simpler form of mensural notation in the [[17th century]], but never completely disappeared. Modern guitar tablature is the preferred notation of many guitarists to this day.<br />
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===External link===<br />
[http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/tab_read.html How to read lute tablature]</div>Vincenzo da Bresciahttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Consort_music&diff=3429Consort music2004-03-10T00:11:38Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: </p>
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<div>Consort music is a generic term for any music performed using a variety of instruments. Most such performances were ad hoc affairs, where musicians performed together using instrumental combinations that made sense to them.<br />
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In England a particular type of consort became popular in the late 16th century. Queen Elizabeth supposedly heard six musicians playing and referred to their ensemble as the 'exquisite six.' Overnight that combination became a hit.<br />
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The exquisite six consisted of a lute, recorder or flute, cittern, bandora (a bass cittern), treble viol, and bass viol. A musical sensation, it spurred the publishing of several musical books arranged for this combination, particularly that published by Thomas Morley in 1599.</div>Vincenzo da Bresciahttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Lute_tablature&diff=3430Lute tablature2004-03-10T00:03:12Z<p>Vincenzo da Brescia: </p>
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<div>Tablature was a common medieval and renaissance form of musical notation that could be written for any fretted string instrument. Often referred in modern times as "lute tablature" because of the preeminence of the lute, tablature was used for many different instruments.<br />
<br />
Mensural notation, both modern and period, tells the reader what note to play. Tablature tells the reader which frets to press and which strings to play. This makes tablature extremely instrument-specific, and tablature is useless for an instrument using another tuning.<br />
<br />
Tablature is, however, much easier to learn how to read than mensural notation. This is particularly so when compared to period mensural notation, where which line signified which note would change within the piece!<br />
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Tablature came in two formats, French and Italian. Italian tablature, like modern guitar tablature, uses numbers to represent frets. 0 is an open string, 1 is the first fret, etc... French tablature uses letters, where a is an open string, b the first fret, etc... It is important to remember, when playing such tablature, that there is no 'j' in the period alphabet!<br />
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Another difference is that French tablature, like modern guitar tablature, has the treble-most string represented by the top line of tablature. Italian, however, uses the bottom line of tablature to represent the treble-most string (modern tablature readers would consider it "upside down").<br />
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Tablature is today disdained by classically-trained musicians, but in the renaissance it held a status equal to other forms of notation and was used by amateurs and professionals alike. Much of the early music publishing business (particularly the publishers Adrein Le Roy in France and William Barley in England), catering to aristocratic amateur players, consisted of printed books of tablature.<br />
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Tablature declined with the ascent of keyboard instruments and the invention of a simpler form of mensural notation in the 17th century, but never completely disappeared. Modern guitar tablature is the preferred notation of many guitarists to this day.</div>Vincenzo da Brescia