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A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by eminent writers, English and foreign : with illustrations and woodcuts, 1879
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1TABLATURE.
3Italian method.
4Ottaviano Petrucci.
6Af – lit – ti spir – ti miei
8Lowest String.
10(A)- 3
11(D)- 2
12(G)- 2
13(B)- 1
14(E)- 3
15(A)- Chanterelle.
17etc.
19Solution.
21etc.
23These examples will enable the student to solve any ordinary forms of Tablature. Those who wish to study the supplementary Positions of Galilei, and the complicated methods of Gerle,2 Besardus,3 and other German writers, will find no difficulty in understanding the rules laid down in their respective treatises, after having once mastered the general features of this system.
25It remains only to speak of Tablature as applied to other instruments than that for which it was originally designed.
27During the reign of King James I, Coperario, then resident in England, adapted the Lute Tablature to Music written for the Bass Viol.
291 In most modern editions, this note is erroneously printed G.
302 Musica Teutsch (Nürnberg, 1642).
313 Thesaurus harmonicus (Colon. Agr. 1603).
33TABLE ENTERTAINMENT.
35This method of Notation was used for beginners only, and not for playing in concert. John Playford, in his 'Introduction to the Skill of Music' (10th edit., London, 1683), describes this method of Notation as the 'Lyra-way'; and calls the instrument the Lero, or Lyra-Viol. The six strings of the Bass Viol are tuned thus, beginning with the 6th, or lowest String, and reckoning upwards—D, G (Γ), c, e, a, d; and the method proposed is exactly the same as that used for the Lute, adapted to this system of tuning. Thus, on the 6th String, a denotes (the Open String); b denotes D♯; c denotes E etc. A player, therefore, who can read Lute Music, will find no difficulty in reading this.
37John Playford, enlarging upon Coperario's ideas, recommended the same method for beginners of the Violin, adapting it to the four Open Strings of that instrument—G, D, A, E. The following Air is arranged on this system, for the Violin, is taken from a tune called 'Parthenia.'
39A C D F H F D C A
403 A F
41Parthenia.
42D C A A
43F E F A
45Solution.
47This adaptation to the Violin is one of the latest developments of the system of Tablature record: but Mendel,4 not without show of reason, thinks the term applicable to the Basso Continuo or Figured-Bass; and we should not be very wrong were we to apply it to the Tonic-Sol-fa system of our own day.
49TABLE ENTERTAINMENT. A species of performance consisting generally of a mixture of narration and singing delivered by a single individual seated behind a table facing the audience. When or by whom it was originated seems doubtful. George Alexander Steevens gave, about 1765, entertainments in which he was the sole performer, but such were probably rather lectures than table entertainments. In May 1767, R. Baddeley, the comedian (the original Moses in 'The School for Scandal'), gave an entertainment at Marylebone Gardens, described as an attempt at a sketch of the times in a variety.
514 Musikalischs Conversations Lexicon (Berlin, 1869).
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