

Intabulations of German Lieder with parts for two voices and a bass). Viol or baryton, and 13 pieces for keyboard (two of which are Of tunings, three lute duets, 11 pieces for baryton, three pieces for History of this miscellany have yet to be reached.Īmong the 200 items there are 157 pieces for solo lute in a variety Regarding the person's relationship to the provenance and early


Number of candidates have been under consideration, but firm conclusions He or she is thought to have been anĪristocrat, and perhaps a member of one of the musical Swan (Zwaan or The costly baryton) and the leisure time for copying out arrangementsįrom one instrument to another. German (the language used in the tuning diagrams) and a person withĮclectic tastes who had a substantial number of instruments (including Introduction Tim Crawford speculates that the compiler was probably Questions that have bothered scholars since the 1960s. The manuscript has been carefully guarded in the Library of the St Stolen less determined books from our musical legacy. Has withstood the ravages of time and the predators of culture that have Stands firm') surrounding a tower on the cover, this fascinatingĬollection of mid-17th-century French, German, Italian and English music The first folio, and by the Latin motto `Inconcussa manes' (`She Protected by two hissing swans bearing Fame's starry crown on Sciences, with an introduction, inventory, and index by Tim Crawford andįrancois-Pierre Goy, Monuments of the Lutenist Art, vol. 124, Library of the St Petersburg Academy of Petersburg 'Swan' Manuscript." Retrieved from
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