[CITTERN] Re: Allemande by D. Ritter

[Stuart Walsh]

ro...@cetrapublishing.com wrote:
Nice to hear someone else playing Ritter!  I think his music is
interesting, but I also think you're short changing Schumann and 
Straube.  There is actually quite a bit of writing
that accompanies itself even if, on paper, it doesn't appear so.  Have 
a play through Schumann's Lesson XII and
I think you'll see what I mean.  The major section of Lesson II is 
another example, while the minor section
is purely melodic.  I haven't played any Oswald in a while, but if 
memory serves, a lot of his tunes
sound "complete" without an obvious two-voice texture.  It isn't a 
Bach violin solo, but it does make good use
of the cetra's idiomatic characteristics.

Thanks for posting the video -

Doc

  

I was going to play another piece by Ritter, a Rondeau. But in the minor 
section it has an E flat arpeggio above the fifth position and I just 
can't get my guittar in tune up there. Perhaps my guittar is 
particularly poorly fretted. Those guittars with capo holes must have be 
well fretted. I suspect the Geminiani pieces would be
unplayable on my guittar (which may not be untypical).


Stuart
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