Stuart Walsh
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:12:34 -0800
Finally got to listen to this. V. nice - but is it 2 Stuarts playing - and are they playing baroque or classical guitars?Monica
Thank you for listening Monica. It's just me playing - finally coming to terms with a multi-track recording device I got ages ago. And it's just my very (very!) humble five-course guitar - but with the bourdons reversed so the thumb hits the bourdon first. According to Tyler this publication is from 1757. I think it's a fine little Minuetto and it has a sort of swaggeriness that sort of reminds me of Mertz from a century later.
So now I'm fascinated by Merchi ("the Jack and Joe mystery"). There seems to be very little on the Internet on the Merchi brothers - little more than a couple of paragraphs about their concerts and speculations about their dates. There is an online pdf in Italian on G or J's song accompaniments. There is also the Groves entry which says that Giacomo and Joseph Barnard are frequently confused. Tyler has a couple of pages and the SPES edition of some of Giacomo's (if it was Giacomo?) works and an introduction (in Italian). Do you know of anything else?
Stuart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Baroque guitar duoHere's the Minuetto from the fourth Duetto 'a due chitarre' by Giacomo Merchi...1770s-ish? James Tyler and Robert Spencer recorded the preceding Allegro (how long ago!)and maybe recorded this one too. Merchi also published 'Sei Duetti a Chitarra e Violino Con sordina' and number 4 is almost the same as the fourth Duetto for two guitars but there are a lot of small differences. The guitar/violin version has an additional movement and, at a cursory glance, the guitar/violin duets look a bit more fancy than the guitar duets.http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Minuetto.mp3 Stuart To get on or off this list see list information athttp://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.8/1897 - Release Date: 16/01/2009 06:52