Eugene C. Braig IV
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:58:09 -0700
At 02:45 PM 4/8/2008, Stuart Walsh wrote: >Lots of music was published for for the five-course guitar. There is a >fair amount online too. Wouldn't a five-course be more promising than a >four-course guitar? > >Bear in mind that the little four-course guitar is very unlike a modern >classical guitar. Of course here, in large part, you're discussing renaissance- vs. baroque-era music for guitar, which can also be quite different from each other both stylistically and technically, in some ways as different as the modern guitar. A fantasia by Mudarra doesn't necessarily bear much resemblance to a Fandango by de Murcia. As far as I know, all the renaissance-era sources for 4-course guitar are notated as strictly punteado. 5-course music of the baroque era often incorporates a good deal of rasgueado. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html