Here's a reason: Bach didn't write any baroque guitar music. I find that most of the guitar repertoire, "ancient" and modern, though often charming, not nearly as compelling as Bach. That's the great pity for someone like me: don't like playing "keyboard" because it lacks intimacy and resonance, but would be really happy to play Bach and nothing else.
On 8/30/05, Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > > > However, I have always > > wondered why modern guitarists shun baroque guitar music in favor of > > transcription from music for wholly dissimilar instruments like cello > > or > > violin. > > Because the violin and cello are, in their way, less dissimilar. If > you play them straight off the page on a modern guitar, Bach's violin > partitas and sonatas will make sense, more or less. Corbetta will not. > > HP > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
