exactly my point! Thanks for that, Alain! Thomas
Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2005 19:30 schrieb Alain Veylit: > I have two remarks on the Baroque lute to guitar transcriptions: > -One big problem is the sound of the basses on the guitar that are > relatively dull when compared to the lute. This is aggravated by the > fact that lute music naturally makes of the richness of its bass > register. So is it a good idea to take the best of one instrument to > replace it by the worst of another? > -Two: lute music relies mostly on first positions, whereas the guitar > not only allows for high position fingerings but often sounds best in > the higher positions. > Because of those two points, I personally tend to think that the best > arrangements of Weiss's music on the guitar would involve transposing > upward, maybe as much as a fifth sometimes. > The 8-string guitar which has both an extra bass and an extra treble > could work very well in that model. But in this day of revival of the > lute, there is little point in transcribing for the sake of it, without > paying attention to what the guitar could actually bring in terms of > its own qualities. At least at the professional level. > Alain > -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
