Description

Silvius Leopold Weiss, The Moscow Manuscript

Facsimile and Transcription by Tim Crawford. This edition presents a photographic reproduction and a treble and bass transcription.

The tablature of the Moscow Weiss MS is for the 13-course baroque lute, as used by Weiss after about 1720.

The six basic stopped courses of the instrument are tuned to a D-minor chord: f’ d’ a f d A.