What do you call a tablature polyglot? A tablyglot?
G.
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From: "Are Vidar Boye Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G?
As you imply: I guess it's because they can't be bothered to
learn to read on an A instrument
A lot of people prefer to work in those areas they're most familiar
with. We have modern editions of Italian music in French tablature,
because French tab is the one that a lot of people feel more at home
with. We tend to stay with the techniques we're most familiar with,
and in some cases we tend to stay with the types of music we're most
familiar with. Someone (a most renowned and magisterial figure in
the lute world ;-) ;-) ;-)) said to me last year: "Baroque lute is
late-period and decadent. I don't accept it." Another equally
renowned luter told me last year, "if it's not renaissance music I
don't play it." It's not laziness; just a reluctance to go beyond
what's familiar.
If people are obcessive about renaissance music that is fine, but I am
sceptic about publishing italian music in french tabulature. There is so
much interesting music out there which is still unpublished, so to me its
just a waste of time and effort to translate italian music to french
tabulature. Its not difficult to learn to read italian tabulature, and I
consider it laziness not to try it.
Are (about to learn german tabulature)
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