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Missing glyphs for German lute tablature #274

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rettinghaus opened this issue May 25, 2023 · 1 comment
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Missing glyphs for German lute tablature #274

rettinghaus opened this issue May 25, 2023 · 1 comment
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Currently the German Renaissance lute tablature contains 23 *Lower glyphs (Carolingian minuscules), but actually 25 letters were used for the first 5 frets of the first 5 courses.

See following example taken from Sebastian Virdung: Musica getutscht vnd auszgezoge, 1511:

Lute-strings

For last two missing courses in the 5th fret tironian notes have been used, the et and con:

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They can be seen in action e.g. in Hans Newsidler: Ein Newgeordent Künstlich Lautenbuch:

Newsidler_et_con

So I propose to add these glyphs to the range:

et

(tironian et) as U+EC24, luteGermanEt, 2nd course, 5th fret (et)

con

(tironian con) as U+EC25, luteGermanCon, 1st course, 5th fret (con)

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Just to add: for unfretted chords digits were used. The lowest chord ("Groß-Brummer") was indicted by a slashed 1, as you can see here:

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