Arkadia Trio
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:25:40 -0700

An Italian magazine published years ago the following list:

SUITE nr. 1

Simone Molinaro, Ballo detto "Il conte Orlando" & Saltarello del predetto ballo, from Intavolatura per liuto - Libro primo (1599)

Vincenzo Galilei, Polymnia
Anon., Italiana from Oscar Chilesotti's "Da un codice del Cinquecento"
Anon., "Orlando fa' che ti raccordi (villanella)
Anon., Italiana from Oscar Chilesotti's "Da un codice del Cinquecento"
Anon., Passo mezzo bonissimo
Anon., Mascherada

SUITE nr. 2
Fabrizio Caroso, Laura soave
Jean-Baptiste Besard, Bransles de Village, from Novus partus (1671)
Anon., Campanae parisienses

Antoine Boësset, Divine Amaryllis, from Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle (1636)

Bernardo Gianoncelli, Tasteggiata & Bergamasca

SUITE nr. 3
Anon., Italiana
Santino Garsi, La Cesarina
Jean-Baptiste Besard, 6 Airs de court, from Thesaurus Harmonicus (1603)
Anon., Spagnoletta
Ludovico Roncalli, Passacaglia, from Capricci armonici (1692)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:36 PM
Arthur J Ness
All of the transcriptions used by Respighi come from SEVERAL articles
on lute music published by Chilesotti in various places, including some
rather obscure Italian music journals, which are particularly troublesome
to locate. The three suites (publ. 1917, 1923 and 1931--after OC's death
in 1916) contain 24 pieces, and ONLY SIX are taken from the Codice
Lauten-Buch!  And the tablature for one of the six pieces is reproduced
in Chilesotti's book in facsimile.  So one would only have to
re-intabulate 5 of the pieces, because all of the others are available
in the original tablatures, many in convenient facsimile editions or
modern editions wth tablature.

From Ron Andrico
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:30:13 +0000
   Dear Eugene, Arthur & All:

   Actually, Respighi's other major source for material for his 'Ancient
   Airs & Dances' suites was Chilesotti's _Lautenspieler des XVI
   Jahrhunderts_, published in 1891.  This volume contains 'guitar'
   transcriptions of the bits by V. Galilei, Molinaro, Besard,
   Gianoncelli, Boesset (via Marin, 1636), as well as a host of other good
   composers of good lute music.  The volume was reprinted by Forni,
   Bologna at some unknown date, and is a worthy anthology ripe for
   re-transcripiton into lute tablature.