At 09:58 AM 11/17/2007, Arthur Ness wrote: >There is another edition of these pieces (RV 540, 93, >425 and 532) by the late Peter Segal for Les Productions >d'Oz in Canada (Ottawa?). I have not (yet) see them in >their entirety. They have alternate parts for guitar, >but seem to be edited originally for lute and mandolins.
The question I would have is what type of mandolins? Did the editors impose their own fingerings, etc? The modern g-d'-a'-e'' Neapolitan type is quite a bit different from the [g]-b-e'-a'-d''-g''. lute-like thing Vivaldi almost certainly had in mind. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
