Mathias, you can and may speak for 99.9% of "us", because David's prowess is in no way indicative of habits or abilities of the general lute population. I am with you on the first issue, because our first responsibility is music itself, and playing from written out music rather than from tabulature has not made anyone a better player yet.
As to continuo: it is big mistake to consider it lute music at all, because regardless how many lutes it may employ lutes are a priori dispensable in it. RT > Dear David, > > yes, you're right, I shall speak for myself. And sorry, I should have > been more precise. What I was referring to in particular is playing > solo > pieces. I for one will always prefer tablature when it comes to playing > solo pieces, on renaissance or baroque lute, no matter how exact or > appropiate transcription of CNRS or DTÖ or Erbe will be. > > As for continuo, I cannot imagine anything else but playing from grand > staff, of course. And I'll be grateful if there is keyboard realization > at hand from which I can more easily and quicker see what I should do. > But that is an entirely different matter. The present issue was about > transcriptions of existing tablatures. > > Would you prefer to play Dowland's Can She Excuse from tablature or > from > transcribed grand staff, David? > > Viele Grüße > > Mathias > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
