Then supposedly Leon Fleisher's recording on a modern equal tempered piano is equally non-sensical, but it's a great performance. Can you recommend any recordings on a meantone harpsichord that could show me what I am missing in the piece?
DS (after all the Sting/Dowland argument on the main lute list, I'm glad to be defending the "modern" approach for a change!) On Friday, October 06, 2006, at 07:53AM, Andreas Schlegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear Daniel and all others > >It may be a beautiful piece - but... >If you hear it on meantone temperated harpsichord you will >understand the texts: the far the person is from Germany, the wronger >sounds the harpsichord because of the modulation in far tonalities. >So it makes no sense to make a transcription for more or less well >temperated lute, when the piece "deals" with the meantone tuning to >illustrate the danger of a trip. > >Andreas > >Am 05.10.2006 um 18:19 schrieb Daniel Shoskes: > >> Has anyone in the group played or tried to intabulate the chaconne >> from Bach's BWV 992 (Capriccio on the departure of a brother)? It has >> a simplicity that should suit playability on a lute and it's really a >> beautiful piece. I tried intabulating a few bars myself, but I've >> never done this before and I find myself making choices between >> keeping the bass line in the midrange of the lute or playing the >> basses lower and dealing with a lot of chromaticism (eg in D minor >> tuning, having to play a few D# and F#'s on the first fret). A pity >> Sautsheck never discovered it! >> >> DS >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
