I find it a very natural technique to rest my thumb on > the fifth course when I make a strum with two or three fingers. I > wonder if Corbetta did that.
We don't really know. I would say that if any finger (or thumb) is supposed to be on a string somewhere, there should be an indication in the tablature. Interesting thought. 2nd line bar 2 works perfectly this way, > making a dom7th. 5th line bar 3, it looks like a dot eliminating the > first course which I would guess applies to the last eighth strum > too. That is not standard procedure anyway. Eliminating the 5th course here isn't necessary but I might do > it anyway. This hemiola cadence makes sense to me: D-D(with lower > appogiatura)-A in the 2nd and 3rd bars. > In the treble melody. How about the low d of the 4th course? We suppose it was there with Corbetta. > I don't get what is painful. Not so much the hand or even the ear. I sometimes get headaches because of the inaccurate notation. Lex To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
