>Hello Craig, > >I'm a complete amateur at the lute, but I seem to remember reading that dots >above or below certain notes indicate that those notes form the melody line of >a song which the lute accompanies. Does that make sense? Cheers
That is true of one of the vihuela books but is not a general principle. If it is a single dot underneath every other note, it is surely an indication to play with the index finger. The other notes would be played with the thumb or middle finger (in combination with thumb on a bass note. At 8:43 AM -0700 04/5/23, Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: > In the bottom space of many of the measures is a rising diagonal line. Those are probably sustain markings. You are to hold the bass note for the duration of the diaganal line. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
