Dear Frank, 1) I would say it doesn't look very authentic - but don't let that stop you from doing it that way if you want to. Take a look at Geminiani's Art of playing the Guitar or Citra - published by Bremner in Edinburgh, 1760. It has a violin part, a guittar part and a basso continuo part - pretty close to what you have, except the guittar doesn't play continuo. It plays the solo line, which the violin doubles. The guittar part adds extra notes to fill out the sound, but it is mainly playing the top part. You could have the guittar playing the optional second violin part. That would be quite nice.
2) Well, it works as a continuo part, but it doesn't look much like any of the published literature for the guittar. 3) Why not? It is nice music. But even if your arrangement was perfect in every way, I would probably still end up doing my own version. Nothing personal. That's just the way I work. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Frank Nordberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2005 11:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Amsterdam trip 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 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? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
