Abstract
Abstract This article considers two manuscript lute tablatures—PL-WRk 352 and A-Wn Mus. Hs. 18827, both of which circulated in southern Germany and northern Italy in the 1530s and 40s—from the perspective of their function as performing manuscripts and portable travelling notebooks. The focus is on the transfer of Italian lute practices to the German regions, based on the study of notation. The analysis of prescriptive and descriptive notation, and also of the scribes’ manner of working with tablature prints and other manuscripts as models, demonstrates the coherence of print and manuscript culture at the time, as well as a flexible approach to the interaction of improvised playing and detailed notation. This continuity can be shown for the period from about 1500 to the 1540s. The two German manuscripts were based on northern Italian lute practices: not merely in the repertory itself, but also in its treatment and in the manner of recording it in the form of copies or prescriptively notated music entries. These results significantly expand and enrich our ideas about early lute practice in southern German regions.
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