Rob
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:22:44 -0800
Hmm. Maybe I'll try - I've never looked at this repertoire before (hence the misreading of the alfabeto), but I get the impression that it is impossible to give a definitive interpretation, but I suppose that could be said about any music, but I'm sure you know what I mean. If I get time I'll try. I don't have a fixed opinion about this, strumming or plucking, so I'll approach it with an open mind. By the way, I no longer have the Edirol recorder. The guy who owned it emigrated to France, so I've just been using a small £50 Sony mic straight into the laptop. There is probably a bar or part of a bar added - I read it only twice before recording. If I thought it was going to studied so carefully I would have taken more care. I was just trying to illustrate what Martyn was talking about. Please don't listen too carefully! Rob www.rmguitar.info -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2008 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Foscarini again - Rob wrote: > Well, my first stupid mistake was to play for the first chord a Gm chord > instead of a Bb chord! Must revise my alfabeto!! After that I more or less > got it right... > > Rob > > www.rmguitar.info > > > It's a very nice sound. After reading Martyn's defence of strum marks as strum marks I've been trying to play the particular section that Monica mentions with strums. And I appreciate that, in this particular case, it can be done - and you can certainly do it far better than I ever could! I've tried playing along with your version - but: it's not happening! I wonder if you've added at least one bar towards the end. I'm sure there is definitely something dodgy about line 8, penultimate bar to final bar on that line (bars 10-11 in Monica's transcription). I think there is a bar - or more - missing and you have unconsciously compensated for it. Rob, while you have your guitar in one hand and the Edirol in the other, try playing line one, second half of bar 4. The single note (a) on the first course is marked with a strum sign. Can you physically play the preceding chord and add the a? And even if you could, does it sound remotely plausible as chord? And again the last two bars of line two, especially the penultimate bar. Can you strum them? Could you make a recording of a bit more of this piece? Finally , line 9, bar 4. how do you add a top g to a full barre Bb chord? And the penultimate note of the penultimate bar: how do you add, physically, add an a to a C minor chord? Surely this must be single note (but it's got a strum sign). I think Monica must be right in saying that some of Foscarini's strum signs aren't actually strum signs. And there are strum signs all over the place in Foscarini. Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 January 2008 16:40 > To: 'Martyn Hodgson'; 'Stuart Walsh'; vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Foscarini again - > > I've made a stab at interpreting this on the guitar: > www.rmguitar.info/temp.htm > > I think this is what Martyn is getting at - please forgive me, Martyn, if it > isn't. Obviously it is only an attempt after a couple of read-throughs, and > I got a little lost, but the general idea is, I think, one being forwarded > by Martyn. So apart from being slightly out of tune and hesitant in parts, > is there anything wrong with the interpretation? I think it is a reasonable > assumption of Foscarini's intentions - anyway, it is his fault for not being > explicit!. > > Rob MacKillop > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >