I suppose we're straying a bit off lute topics again, but Karl Scheit arranged the de Visee C minor suite both for modern guitar and for guitar and recorder/flute in the early 70's and I have come across at least one other edition. Most of de Visee's other baroque guitar suites have received modern arrangements (the only one I haven't seen arranged is the suite in B minor - no 11in Robert Strizich's edition). However only the D minor suite seems to receive much attention from guitarists and I agree with you that the Tombeau in the C minor suite is a particularly fine piece.
I've also got a copy of Philippe Meunier's guitar arrangements of de Visee's theorbo arrangements of pieces by Couperin (arrangements of arrangements I suppose). I suspect some other of de Visee's theorbo works could fairly readily be arranged for guitar. Eric Crouch [email protected] On 31 Aug 2005, at 04:06, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: > Still, I believe baroque music for guitar can be made to work as > well on 6-string guitar as any baroque music if loosely approached, > again, as transcription. It's dissimilarity to modern guitar > doesn't seem to me to justify its total abandonment by players of > the modern instrument. Of course, modern guitarists are more > easily served to select punteado stuff that doesn't lean too > heavily on campanella. There is a good deal of 5-course guitar > music of decent quality that is a little heavier on the punteado > than rasgueado and that is unknown to modern guitarists. An > excellent example I can call to mind is de Visee's suite in C minor > from his first guitar book that includes a fine tombeau on the > death of Corbetta. I and a friend who I turned onto the work are > the only two people I know to have played it, and I know of no > recording of the work, modern guitar or otherwise. My lament > remains: guitarists (who, it would seem, would rather put their > transcription efforts into th > e piano music of Albeniz or the cello suites of Bach) just don't > seem to put much effort into knowing or loving the dedicated > repertoire of their own instrument and its ancestors. > > Eugene > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
