22Jul25: I just finished work on Bakfark’s Premier Livre de Tabelature de Luth (1564). It consists of 10 pieces: 2 fantasias , and 8 vocal intabulations: 2 motets by Gombert and Piéton, 3 Arcadelt madrigals, and 3 chansons bu Crécquillon, Janequin, and Pathie. All strikingly good works. The vocal intabulations are also contained in Bakfark’s 1552 “Intabulatura”, which I encoded many years ago, but the pieces in the later version are slightly different and contain right hand fingerings.
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