Dear Anthony,
Many thanks for this.
Why is it thought by some that the intended instrument was an Italian
'calascione' (not to be confused with the mid-European
callichon/gallichon) rather than a 'liuto' or 'leuto' with 6/7 courses
which was still known in Italy in the eighteenth century (various
depictions) or, indeed, even something like Dalla Casa's arcileuto?
regards .... and keep up the good work!
Martyn
On Friday, 24 May 2019, 16:47:45 BST, Anthony Hart
<anthony.hart1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I have been lurking on the list for a couple of days to see any
comments.
To answer a couple of questions. The general concensus it that they
were composed for calascione, which was a popular instrument used in
churches in Italy at this time.
I believe that these were 'fun' pieces composed for a friend with
Reggio on cello.That is not to say that these were not quality
pieces. Reggio was a very competent composer for keyboard
instruments.His music reflects the transition from the baroque to
classical periods. His keyboard sonatas are a significant
contribution
to this period. His works and life covers the gallant period almost
exactly.
Thanks everyone for their comments and interest in Reggio.
I am in the process of writing the biography of Reggio and I wish to
include some discussion of his works. If anyone is interested in
sampling his music then contact me off line and I will let you have
some of his works provided I get feed back of your thought.
Best wishes to all
Anthony
Il giorno ven 24 mag 2019 alle ore 10:43 Martyn Hodgson
<[1][1]hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu> ha scritto:
Dear Konstantin,
Thanks for this. I agree that the works do not always seem to
fit
well
on the G archlute and that an instrument in nominal A is often
more
comfortable for some of Reggio's works.
Regarding the notation being either at pitch or an octave
lower:
look
at the Dalla Casa MS (1759) for his ' Arcileuto Francese' - a
roughly
similar date to the Reggio compositions.
[1][2][2]http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/viewschedatwbca.asp?path=/
cmbm/i
mages/ripro/gaspari/EE/EE155/
Since we even have a portrait of Dalla Casa (1737 -c1810)
playing
his
instrument, we know for certain that this music, in staff
notation, has
to be played an octave lower than nominally written since the
top
string could not come up to the higher pitch on an instrument
of
this
size. This is also confirmed by the 'Scale per L'Arcileuto
Francese'
notated on the penultimate folio of the MS. I suspect Reggio
employed
the same practice - it also avoids the excessive use of ledger
lines
etc.
I'm not worried about the occasional note being below the
notated
bass. Dalla Casa's works sometimes show this too - for example
in
the
Suonata per Arcileuto francese (del Sigr, N.N.). The sustained
bass
part overcomes the transient nature of the lute part
Interestingly, note Dalla Casa's right hand playing technique:
very
much a thumb out and even with what seems a long nail on his
thumb!
MH
PS In my view the organ is the better choice for BC to
accompany
the
archlute - the harpsichord is too incisive and its strong upper
harmonic partials obscure the lute.
On Thursday, 23 May 2019, 20:19:24 BST, Konstantin Shchenikov
<[3][3]konstantin.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
I had experience with that music. I've recorded 1st and 2nd
with
organ,
played it in concerts with harpsichord and another archlute.
I
also
did
some guitar solo and guitar duo arrangements of several
sonatas
for
Anthony Hart and played some of them on XIX c. guitar.
I read through more or less all 24 lute sonatas. Some of them
are
very
interesting. In the average the music is of interesting
transitional
style and good quality. There are some signs of old style,
like
2-part
form close to Scarlatti Sonatas or Bach-Sons pieces. The
manner
of
working with material is mostly old-fashioned for 70s' when
Haydn and
Mozart were flourished, but the musical material itself
sounds
more
close to those vienna classics with some interesting haromies
of very
'fresh' style linked to me with Mozart or even Schubert
(f-minor
sonata
particulary, find the link below).
After playing with harpsichord and archlute I came to
conclusion,
that
texture is missing in this music. There is a lot of fast
contrasts in
material which must be supported with different types of
texture in
accompaniment: choral chords in 1st bar, arpeggios in the 2nd
and
counterpoint in 3rd...
Using similar kind of melodies and harmonies Mozart wrote
such
a
texture contrasts out carefully in his sonatas. Reggio uses
outdated
manner of spelling and leave musicians to improvise it. (So,
the
organ
is not the best instrument for accompaniment here and my
first
recordings are not satisfying, I'm still thinking of
re-recording
this
music with new ideas)
There are lots of question for me regarding this music.
The first is what instrument Reggio called lute? It's written
in
treble
clef and in high tessitura. Should it sound octave lower,
like
classical guitar does? In this case some places occurs where
lower
note
in the lute part are lower than bass part. May be it's some
little
instrument with high tunings? - So, this places with doubtful
voice
leading will be solved, but may be this doubtful voice
leading
is
just
composer's error?
What kind of tuning is involved? May be different tunings?
Some
chords
written out very comfortable for classical guitar tuning (but
also
for
archlute in A), some are written way to low even for archlute
in G.
There is a sonatas in terrible keys for lute... That's all
are
very
interesting and I highly recommend to play Reggio. He is
worth
of it.
So here are my recordings:
F-minor
[1][2][4][4]https://youtu.be/efGYZtcx04Y
C-major
[2][3][5][5]https://youtu.be/AI5Yjel4V7c
Cheers,
Konstantin
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