-------------- Original message from Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>: --------------
> angevin...@att.net wrote: > > Perhaps like many lute players, I started out playing lute strictly > > from tablature. While I'm fluent reading mensural notation for > > singing or other instruments, I've never mastered it with the lute. I > > feel this is a lack, and would like to fix it - except for how much > > work it is! Now I currently play both a tenor in G and an alto in A. > > I can think of reasons why it would be "nice" to be able to read > > mensural notation on each of them. But since the task at hand is > > already difficult (and hard to motivate practicing), I really need to > > pick either the G or the A and just learn that for now. Like most lute > > players, I played some (classical) guitar first, so really it would > > probably be slightly easier to learn the association from A lute to > > mensural notation. But perhaps the G is more generally useful in the > > long run. > > Any advice from the collected wisdom? > > Suzanne > > -- > > > > > Just to clarify: mensural notation as in > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation > > > Stuart No, I mean plain old modern staff notation. Not the esoteric, specialized stuff of early Western music. Mensural, as is "Add mensural staff" of Fronimo. Sorry if the use of the not-quite-exact term was confusing. I'm just meaning to contrast tablature with staff notation. Suzanne To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
