mayone's 31-tone examples

Presenting realizations of the examples that Asciano Mayone wrote for Fabio Colonna's
book (1618) on the 31-tone harpsichord that he basically plagarized from Scipione Stella
if you believe Stella. Stella had already written music for the instrument that he had but
got mad at Colonna and didn't let him include it in his book. So Colonna asked Mayone to
give it a shot and this is what resulted.

Featuring a composition cycling thru the circle of 31 fifths (available from Diapason Press)
as well as some nice enharmonic and chromatic counterpoint.

brown-1111.brown.rice.edu/~jb/Sambuca.zip contains 11 small mp3s.

Enjoyt,
Jacob

>Presenting realizations of the examples that Asciano Mayone wrote for Fabio
>Colonna's book (1618) on the 31-tone harpsichord that he basically
>plagarized from Scipione Stella if you believe Stella. Stella had already
>written music for the instrument that he had but got mad at Colonna and
>didn't let him include it in his book. So Colonna asked Mayone to give it a
>shot and this is what resulted.

Whoa! Is there any info available this instrument?

>Featuring a composition cycling thru the circle of 31 fifths (available from
>Diapason Press) as well as some nice enharmonic and chromatic counterpoint.
>
>brown-1111.brown.rice.edu/~jb/Sambuca.zip contains 11 small mp3s.

Wowzers!

It sounds almost too good to be sampled, too. How was this realized?

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> Whoa! Is there any info available this instrument?

It's all in his book, which turns out to be in the HF bibliography. Stella's enharmonic
harpsichord had 8 rows of keys (with some duplicates), and Colonna's Sambuca (actually a
clavichord, my bad) had six multicolored rows. Also cool is that Colonna's monochord
contains ratios with primes up to 17.

> It sounds almost too good to be sampled, too. How was this realized?

Alesis QS8. Retuned live with *Scala for OS X Panther!*

Jacob

>> Whoa! Is there any info available this instrument?
>
>It's all in his book, which turns out to be in the HF bibliography.
>Stella's enharmonic harpsichord had 8 rows of keys (with some duplicates),
>and Colonna's Sambuca (actually a clavichord, my bad) had six multicolored
>rows. Also cool is that Colonna's monochord contains ratios with primes up
>to 17.

Is anyone collecting images of the layouts of these keyboards?
8 rows of keys!?

It'd be nice to collect the layouts for these instruments (and
any others with more than a few split keys) in one place...

Nicalo Vicentino archicembalo
Scipione Stella enharmonic harpsichord
Fabio Colonna Sambuca
Gioseffo Zarlino 24-note harpsichord

I found these links...

http://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/ftp/tuning/list/archive/digests/digest.338
http://www.denzilwraight.com/24note.htm

>> It sounds almost too good to be sampled, too. How was this realized?
>
>Alesis QS8. Retuned live with *Scala for OS X Panther!*

Rad.

-Carl

>>It's all in his book, which turns out to be in the HF bibliography.
>>Stella's enharmonic harpsichord had 8 rows of keys (with some duplicates),
>>and Colonna's Sambuca (actually a clavichord, my bad)

This page...

http://diapason.xentonic.org/cm/cm003.html

...claims it was a harpsichord. . .

>>had six multicolored
>>rows. Also cool is that Colonna's monochord contains ratios with primes
>>up to 17.
>
>Is anyone collecting images of the layouts of these keyboards?
>8 rows of keys!?
>
>It'd be nice to collect the layouts for these instruments (and
>any others with more than a few split keys) in one place...
>
>Nicalo Vicentino archicembalo
>Scipione Stella enharmonic harpsichord
>Fabio Colonna Sambuca
>Gioseffo Zarlino 24-note harpsichord
>
>I found these links...
>
>http://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/ftp/tuning/list/archive/digests/digest.338
>http://www.denzilwraight.com/24note.htm

There is also:

http://www.muzykologia.uj.edu.pl/conference/papers/Marco%20Tiella.pdf

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> >>It's all in his book, which turns out to be in the HF bibliography.
> >>Stella's enharmonic harpsichord had 8 rows of keys (with some duplicates),
> >>and Colonna's Sambuca (actually a clavichord, my bad)
>
> This page...
>
> http://diapason.xentonic.org/cm/cm003.html
>
> ...claims it was a harpsichord. . .

That page attributes the composition to Colonna, not even mentioning Mayone. I wonder
what Rudolf Rasch's introduction has to say about it.

Incidentally, Grove Music online thinks that Vicentino's and Colonna's instruments divide
the octave into 17 parts...

>> This page...
>>
>> http://diapason.xentonic.org/cm/cm003.html
>>
>> ...claims it was a harpsichord. . .
>
>That page attributes the composition to Colonna, not even mentioning
>Mayone. I wonder what Rudolf Rasch's introduction has to say about it.
>
>Incidentally, Grove Music online thinks that Vicentino's and Colonna's
>instruments divide the octave into 17 parts...

Egad, a wish for some definitive info here. I've been meaning to buy
this book (and the one on Fokker), but I just can't afford it for the
foreseeable future.

-Carl