[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)

[Martyn Hodgson]

   Further to this thread, you may be vaguely interested to know that
   there's a quite large 5 course mandora repertoire from the 18thC which,
   of course, has exactly the same interval tuning as the guitar and
   always had the bourdon on the thumb side....

   The late Deisel guitar Mss also requires low octaves on the thumb side
   M
   --- On Sat, 17/1/09, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

     From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
     Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)
     To: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
     Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
     Date: Saturday, 17 January, 2009, 11:52 AM
Spelling has never been my strong point!

Monica


----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh"
<s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)


> Stuart Walsh wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>
> And, of course,  your discussion of stringing from Joseph Bernard (not
Barnard!)on your website too!!
>
>
>>
>>
>> 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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