May I drop a stone into the water by saying that compared to closely related guitars and renaissance lutes, things get freaky with the baroque lute tuned in the ton de la chevre, i. e. three sharps, with the 1st and 4th courses being enharmonic. Possible and practically used chord shapes of this tuning (e. g. in French baroque music) are simply astonishing.
Mathias > -----Original Message----- > From: Stewart McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 June 2007 16:52 > To: Lute Net > Subject: [LUTE] To end all Lute Chord Confusion > > > Dear David, > > Not half as difficult as Dutch typed fast, or Japanese for that matter. > > In answering Neil's initial question by supplying a list of chords for the > lute, one can see why there must be better ways of approaching the lute > other than solely through chord shapes. I particularly liked the chords with > seven flats in the key signature, i.e. what you get when you drop a grand > piano down a pit shaft. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart McCoy. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
