Of Course, but you can't deny the availability of accessing Weiss in an easy way, my way ;)
On Apr 7, 2005 7:38 PM, Thomas Schall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
