No, I'm wrong - Scheit did no. 11 too! EC On 31 Aug 2005, at 18:32, Eric Crouch wrote:
> 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 >
