[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)

[Monica Hall]

Hi Stuart

Well that's very clever!   I don't know much about Merchi.   There is a
facsimile of "Le guide des ecoliers" published by Minkoff,  1981. I only
have a photocopy of the opening pages.   He says octave stringing on 4th and 
5th , but
doesn't say which way round.   However both Corrette and Rousseau who are 
contemporary indicate that the high octave string should be on the thumb 
side and this is essential for Corrette.

I not very clued up on the later stuff - as I think that when they ditched 
the re-entrant tuning the music isn't so interesting.....

Monica

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)



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 duo


Here'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



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