[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Martyn Hodgson
'brightness' might explain this practice. regards Martyn --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: From: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example To: Rockford Mjos rm...@comcast.net Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Martyn Hodgson
--- On Mon, 9/5/11, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: From: R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example To: Rockford Mjos rm...@comcast.net, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 9 May

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread R. Mattes
for the practice. I might sound grumpy but this seems to become a unhealthy habbit recently. Cheers, Ralf Mattes MH --- On Mon, 9/5/11, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: From: R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example To: Rockford Mjos rm

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Martyn Hodgson
-5graysinnsquare.co.uk/news/index.cfm?id=1391 regards Martyn --- On Tue, 10/5/11, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: From: R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk, Rockford Mjos rm

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:10 +0100 (BST), Martyn Hodgson wrote If you're interested in the bacground and legal arguments, there are summaries of the case, known as Sawkins v Hyperion Records Ltd 2005, on various sites such as    www.4-5graysinnsquare.co.uk/news/index.cfm?id=1391 Thanks

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Martyn Hodgson
I believe they (Ex-Cathedra dir. Jeff Skidmore) did use the edition not, of course, expecting all the subsequent trouble. Mh --- On Tue, 10/5/11, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: From: R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example To: Martyn Hodgson

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Despopoulos
@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:03 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example On Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:10 +0100 (BST), Martyn Hodgson wrote If you're interested in the bacground and legal arguments, there are summaries of the case, known as Sawkins v Hyperion

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-10 Thread Monica Hall
To: [2]Monica Hall Cc: [3]Vihuelalist Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example Hello Monica, I've just returned from an extended Easter break and am catching up with emails, but this is more interesting than most Pitch

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-09 Thread Monica Hall
Thanks for sharing the info with us. Your delving into this collection is enormously useful. It does look as if the guitar is supposed to be playing along with everyone else. But the list of artists in Albrici's ensemble paid in 1653 includes Bartolotti as the only theorbo player, one

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-09 Thread Rockford Mjos
If we are looking for possible guitarists to take that second hand- plucked part, Reggio comes to mind, though listed in the court payroll as a bass (singer) [See STMF 1961, p. 308] Kenneth Sparr had this comment: “During the period 1652-1654 Queen Christine of Sweden had a company of

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-09 Thread Monica Hall
Yes - that seems very likely. Singers/players would be listed in payrolls under just one heading. Multi tasking. Out of 16 people listed 13 are singers. Having looked more closely at the guitar part - it doesn't look very suitable for guitar - it goes down to E below the

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-09 Thread Rockford Mjos
Kremberg and others assume a guitar tuned in D so, of course, a transposing part would mean thinking E-tuned guitar shapes on a D instrument (for example). When I play continuo on guitar I transpose out of range bass lines (in my head) as needed. I also wonder about the Tacet instructions.

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example

2011-05-09 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:56:20 -0500, Rockford Mjos wrote Kremberg and others assume a guitar tuned in D so, of course, a transposing part would mean thinking E-tuned guitar shapes on a D instrument (for example). And the spinetta is also a transposing instrument? Might well be parts written