[email protected] wrote: Nice to hear someone else playing Ritter! I think his music is interesting, but I also think you're short changing Schumann and Straube. There is actually quite a bit of writing that accompanies itself even if, on paper, it doesn't appear so. Have a play through Schumann's Lesson XII and I think you'll see what I mean. The major section of Lesson II is another example, while the minor section is purely melodic. I haven't played any Oswald in a while, but if memory serves, a lot of his tunes sound "complete" without an obvious two-voice texture. It isn't a Bach violin solo, but it does make good use of the cetra's idiomatic characteristics.
Thanks for posting the video - Doc I was going to play another piece by Ritter, a Rondeau. But in the minor section it has an E flat arpeggio above the fifth position and I just can't get my guittar in tune up there. Perhaps my guittar is particularly poorly fretted. Those guittars with capo holes must have be well fretted. I suspect the Geminiani pieces would be unplayable on my guittar (which may not be untypical). Stuart -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting
