I just couldn't resist the challenge. Here's one of Oswald's seasonal airs with a continuo part for the English guittar: http://www.musicaviva.com/ranunculus-eng.pdf
The second fiddle part is from a book Oswald published in 1756 (with second parts to all the airs) and is optional. With both a flute and a fiddle present they may both play the lead or the fiddle may take the second part. The bass part is of course optional once there's a chord instrument present, but a cello would definitely enrichen the sound. The English guittar part is a fairly straight continuo realisation, perhaps slightly more complicated and with fuller chords than strictly necessary. Lots of parallel movements and stuff there, but in this context I don't think that matters much. It's definitely for fingerpicking. Oswald's divertimenti seems to have been intended for plectrum playing, but that doesn't seem to work well here. Some of the open first course notes might work better on thrid fret second course, but apart from that the fingering is fairly obvious all the way. This may well be very close to what David's 18th century cittern ensemble would have played. If I can find the time, I'd like to give a few more of Oswald's airs (and perhaps other similar music from the same period too), but I have three questions first: 1) Does this look reasonably authientic? 2) Does the continuo part suit the English guittar well enough? 3) Is there any chance anybody will ever actually play this? Oh btw, the file won't be at this URL indefinitely, so those who want to have a look better grab it at once. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.tablatvre.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
