"Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> You cannot see the direction of a voice's movements in >tablature, >> whereas in staff notation you can. Tablature proves >nothing as for >> harmony and counterpoint. Agreed?
> Yes agreed. But seeing, and hearing, are two different things. Hearing > harmony, etc. is the whole point! (...) A > lutenist can play from the tab. and instantly hear counterpoint, and > harmony okay, so, this is about acoustic vs. visional perception (not about staff vs. tab notation)! From my experience, I must agree that I can recognize intervals, and harmony, from staff just as well as from listening. > What's the problem with keyboard players reading from guitar scores, > I've seen it done all time. you'll have to be skilled, don't you. Keyboard staff actually is keyboard tablature. There are German prints of keyboard music, with their title page reading In Italiänischer Tabulatur (in Italian tablature), that contain music in double systems of descant and bass clefs. Most keyboard players are used to reading their tablatures. Octavated treble clef is something very special which may quite common among guitarists (I'm one of them) but otherwise is not. Why don't we just keep thing at where they are today. Happily I'm belonging to a staff of people who are making an edition of an up to now undiscovered baroque lute book, and we're considering a co-edition in guitar-score. Best wishes, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
