Concerning the last piece in Dalza's book, Landato Dio, there was one chord that always troubled me. I think this topic has come up before. I went to ftp://ftp.cs.dartmouth.edu/pub/lute/ but there doesn't seem to be a way to search the archives. In fact, when I clicked on a file it started to open Stuffit Expander. Most of the files are Zipped.
Anyway, anyone familiar with the piece probably knows the chord I mean: fourth line, beginning of 5th measure. I've played it with the 3 on the 2nd course doubling the root instead of on the 4th course. The lack of a third bothered me, as that would be the only chord without one. I tried an open 3rd course or 4 on the fourth course, although that would be harder to rationalize as a printer's error. Recently, I've been playing the chord as written and it's starting to sound okay to my ear, a brief dramatic dark spot contrast before returning to the major tonality. Are my ears getting Dalza-ized? Does this sound like a mistake or a Dalza-ism. Is there a solution I'm missing? TIA
