[MR] PS A period song and music source

[Marybeth Lavrakas]

And to  anyone having difficulty reading 16th C English handwriting, my guide to learning to write the secretary hand is on my 2006 Pentathlon page (sca.livingpast.com). I found learning to write it helped learn to read it! I couldn't help you with understanding the musical notation system, though, that's definitely in Giovan's bailiwick.

Kat. Rous



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 From: Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
To: Tom Hudson <hudson at alumni.unc.edu>; Atlantia - MerryRose <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MR] A period song and music source
 
Hey all, back when i was researching one of my Pentathlon entries I came across this

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu: Anonymous musical  ms known as the Braye Lutebook, 16th C, Osborn Music MS 13; Sartaine  most holsome meditations...(1595-1622), Osborn Shelves a6.

my notes read:- Commonplace books available in digital format. Some entries  in the Braye Lutebook can only be referred to as scrawls. Interestingly, this  volume contains medical recipes as well as musical scores, lyrics and poetry.  I randomly chose one of the better looking pages from the Braye Lutebook to  print out as a handwriting example, only to discover it records one of Surrey's  poems ("Too dearly had I bought my green and youthful years…").  Once I recovered from my surprise, I decided I had to include this poem in  my own commonplace book. Sartaine most holsome meditations includes in the  same volume a 1595 commonplace book by a different compiler, and I have included  a recipe for ink from it in my book


Kateryn Rous


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From: Tom Hudson <hudson at alumni.unc.edu>
To: Atlantia maillist <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MR] A period song and music source

I'm sorry I didn't see the original post that Stefan refers to. I'm
happy to talk anybody's ear off about period sources for both lyrics
and scores, and will certainly be trying to teach some classes about
period music & sources over the next year. Cofrin isn't a bad source,
but it's not the first book I pull off my shelves when I'm looking for
things.

Giovan Donado, newly Atlantian Royal Bard
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