I have just been able consulted Emilio Pujol's edition of Mudarra. Appropos
the stringing of the 4-course guitar he says:
Tengase presente para el efecto auditivo, que las notas contenidas en el
intervalo de quinta mas grave en el bajo cuando el temple de la guitarra es a
los viejos y en el
was suffering from the effects of too much red wine
not Mudarra.
Un abrazo a todo
Monica
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From: Lex Eisenhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Mudarra's
--- Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Re-entrant tunings are not necessary for a melody
instrument but they do
lend themselves to this type of music. More open
courses can be used and it
is less necessary to move about the fingerboard.
[You can even play Peer
Gynt in this way!]
not
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From: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lex Eisenhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: vihuela vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: Mudarra's bordon
Drones are more a feature of instruments capable of sustaining notes than
plucked stringed
On 22nd May Lex wrote the following:
That's exactly what a bourdon does. Probably that was what the temple viejo was
designed for. When there is an interval of a fifth between the lowest strings
of the guitar, the lowest one is used predominantly as an open string. It has
always been used like
