At 08:57 AM 7/2/2005, Arthur Ness wrote:
>...There is a transcrption of the 1680 edition.  But it is for keyboard
>(ed.Erdas for Ut Orpheus),and ALL THE SPECIAL FINGERINGS FOR LUTE ARE LEFT
>OUT!!!!   This is a resujlt of that disease guitar players seem to have,
>when they claim that when lute music is in pitch notation it is for
>keyboard.
>
>Lute music in pitch notation has historically often been on two staves.
>That is the standard way of notating lute music in pitch notation. Harps,
>marimbas, hymns are notated on two staves, and we don't call that keyboard
>notation, do we?  Guitarists don't know that when you play a keyboard the
>hands somehow work together automatically.


Well, not ALL guitarists.

Eugene 



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