In my experience, I would say nearly all Sanz definitely *works* with
fully re-entrant tuning. I find only one fugue that gives me any
problems... Every other piece I have tried so far sounds absolutely
great, and makes perfect sense in a fully re-entrant tuning. It takes
a
Which fugue is it?
Monica
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From: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com
To: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:54 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by
all?
Fuga Primera, por primer Tono al ayre Espanyol, the open G string in
measures (counting from the tablaltura, and not counting the notated
theme):
5
19
23
25
(Note the open G in 24 is not a problem, even though its leading is
very similar)
In these cases, I simply
That is why some people do argue that octave stringing on the 3rd
course is intended.
Gordon Ferries plays it on his CD with the re-entrant tuning. It works
after a fashion but it is not the best track.
I think the point is that Sanz doesn't explicitly say that all his
i?
It seems someone has made a CD of Foscarini - on the RaumKlang label.
I have ordered a copy (how could I not). Has anyone heard it. I
listened to a bit of it. Jazzed up with heavy metal but I though it
might help me sort out the rhythm of some of the pieces that are not
Thanks for the blessing of sorts... discretion being in the eye of the
beholder and all that. Well then, I think it's either put a bordon on
the D string, or sneak the upper octave G into my fingering for those
passages. It's not a technical problem to accomplish either. What
