I think Doc meant this to go to the whole group: -----Original Message----- From: doc rossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 April 2005 05:26 To: Rob MacKillop Subject: Re: Geminiani
Hi - Sorry not to be punctual, but I'm working a lot these days. I'll just give a brief answer here because I'm off to Switzerland now, and will send a fuller response on Monday. Like Rob, I can read from the tab, too, referring to the top line for note values when needed. I've never been a good sight reader, but I have spent the past 12 years or so studying the literature for this instrument, so my comments are based on that experience. I can't say that I have the entire literature under my belt, but I have played a good part of it. So, Stuart, if you meant that G's music is not like the vast majority of cittern music because it's a cut or three above all the little melodies published for the guittar, I'd agree, but there is a lot of good music out there. Stylistically, he is between the baroque and gallant style, like Demarzi and Straube, leaning more this way or that in a piece, as the mood takes him. His harmony is wonderful, probably the best of the lot, and he was ambitious in his use of keys. he seems to have been familiar with the guittar, too, although I find some passages a bit non-idiomatic, but this is always a matter of personal preference, and he was, after all, a violinist, and a quirky one, too. More later... Doc To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
