Dear Gary My experience with Terzi is largely based upon playing his duets, all of them. The accompanying parts are faithfull intabulations of vocal pieces, and an effort has been made by Terzi to get in every note of the vocal original, against all lute-practicalities like having only four fingers or not being able to strech them like spaghetti (your examples). It is my belief that these intabulations represent the ideal intabulations; even if we could finger those chords, we would never be able to hold all the notes needed to sustain the polyphony. They are like a pocket score or piano reduction of the original. When my duet partner and I were playing these piece, we each had a different approach to solve the impossibilities. My duet partner regared the accompaniments as harmonic progressions, so he simplified chords where needed and played them like proto-continuo parts. He ended up with parts that were a succession of playable chords with top and bottom voices the same as Terzi's. That's a very practical and straightforward approach. I had a more 16th century way of doing things: I traced all the polyphonic lines and tried to play these as faithfull as possible. Where that became impossible, I simplified the polyphony by leaving out a voice for some bars, or occasionally refingering sections into a different position where I could sustain more voices. In both approaches we had to adapt individual chord shapes of Terzi, and when we played the same parts, we came to quite different solutions. Also because our fingers are quite different; I cannot always play what he can, and the other way around. So for us the Terzi parts were like orhcestral scores we had to arrange to our own fingers and musical taste; we made our own lute reductions.
David ************************************ David van Ooijen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.davidvanooijen.nl ************************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:57 AM Subject: [LUTE] Terzi"s hands > Dear list; > > I've been reading through some G. A. Terzi. Either Terzi was endowed > with some incredibly huge hands or he had a very small lute. How would one > go about tackling the following: > > > ____7_____ > ____2_____ > ____5_____ > __________ > __________ > ____3_____ > > > 1c=7 > 2c=2 > 3c=5 > 4c > 5c > 6c=3 > > > ____7___ > ____3___ > ____0___ > ________ > ________ > ____7___ > > > 1c=7 > 2c=3 > 3c=0 > 4c > 5c > 6c=7 > > Thank you. > > Gary Digman > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
