On Thursday 16 September 2004 22:49, you wrote: > --- Taco Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 16 September 2004 16:30, you wrote: > > > > These suites can be played together with other > > instruments (I played it for > > example with baroque violin), but they can also be > > played directly on the > > theorbo if you have experience with staff reading > > (the facsimile making it > > slightly more difficult because the upper voice is > > in a french violin key). > > Reading the upper line is not difficult at all. (It > uses a treble clef, but it is placed on the bottom > line of the staff, so that the notes on the lines are > now g-b-d-f-a). I first tried to read from this > notation by mentally transposing the part, but then I > realized that the notes are exactly the same as bass > clef. All you have to do is play everything in the > right octave and you're on your way. >
Yes, I agree with you, but it's a little bit confusing if you play more from staff notation, which is often the case when playing continuo, because you are handed the 'harpsichord' part. And suddenly it's not anymore a G cleff but something which you need to transpose. It's not exactly the same as the bass cleff by the way, because it's an upper voice and should be realized as such, but as 'mental' help you're right. This way it's easier than playing the horror of a staff with an alto cleff. Walther is such an example, where for publication reasons a switch is made several times from bass to alto cleff. I have still difficulties with such parts. By the way, I've read a long time ago that a project of the english lute society was to publish this Visee book for solo theorbo. Maybe I don't remember this correct or the project is stopped. Taco > > CW > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. > http://messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
