[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)

[Stuart Walsh]

:
*Pssst*, that's "misspelling."

Teasingly,
Eugene

  

Good point Eugene! Anyway....do you know anything about the Merchis and 
the mandoline? I wonder what the status of Merchi's  (be it G. or J-B) 
in the mandoline world? There is at least one recording of Merchi  
mandoline music and, according to a catalogue of the time, 'M'. Merchi 
published three oeuvres, mentioning mandolines: two Duo (presumably 
meaning set of Duos) for mandoline and violin and one Trio (=set of 
trios?) for  2 violins or mandolines and bass.


Stuart


-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:11 AM
To: Monica Hall
Cc: Vihuelalist
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)

Monica Hall wrote:
    
Spelling has never been my strong point!

Monica
      
Good grief! I was pointing out my mis-spelling not yours!!!

Do you know anything that has been written about the Merchis? (Other
than Groves, Tyler and the SPES intro) Or any reason to think that a
publication that says it's by Giacomo Merchi rather than just M.Merchi,
should not be by Giacomo?


Stuart
    
----- 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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