On Jan 31, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Bernd Haegemann wrote: > But that are "separe" signs! > They don't mean rolling the chord.
If there are three notes written vertically I guess you could call that a chord. What about that squiggly line drawn beside a chord to indicate rolling it? Surely that must exist in historical sources, doesn't it? Maybe there aren't any signs that tell us to roll chords, I don't know. But there are plenty of chords in Baron, Weiss, etc., etc., even four-note chords that we definitely would play either arpeggiated, rolled, separated, whatever, because even though they may be written out vertically they are intended to be played anything but vertically. We know to do this; we know to roll chords in certain places. It's part of our education into playing Baroque music correctly. We're not supposed to play it straight; we're supposed to enlarge and elaborate on what;s written before us on the page. Perhaps for that reason there are so few direct indications of chord-rolling. Whether or not that applies to Dowland, I wouldn't dare say. DR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
