David Tayler
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:35:01 -0700
Rob is correct--there is a very interesting use of the 7th course to provide an alternate fingering for the low B Flat for voice leading reasons in the third strain. Quintessential Dowland. So ideally it could be played on an eight course or a nine course. Very intriguing; hat tip to Rob, well spotted. dt At 08:19 AM 7/24/2008, you wrote: >Just catching up with this topic. A 'new' piece by Dowland is clearly of >great interest. Can you be more specific, David? I looked at the 14th piece >(thanks for the link to the online facsimile, Valery!) - it seems to be for >8c. On my 69cms lute, the stretches are at times too much, even with >my large hands. I'll leave it to someone else to do the World Premier! > >Rob > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html