I couldn't find your scores on your page, just a reference to this email.
Can you tell us where they are?
They were hidden in the middle of my screen ... Sorry, found them.
Looking good, as ever, and lovely music, of course. I prefer the bass to be
under and the vocal part to be on top. Any written out parts, tablature,
chords symbols, whatever, to be in the middle. And I'd use a bracket to
visually goup the staves. Alfabetto symbols are on top of the vocal line,
that's fine. In this respect the La mia Turca looks better for me. To have
modern chord symbols written under the notes, and mostly root positions at
that, looks a little silly though. Perhaps you want to keep this place free
for those who like to add figures, anyway. The tablature in So dolce lacks
rhythm signs. I know the rhythm is obvious by looking at the bass (too far
away with vocal line and four verses in between) or the vocal line, but
still, it's like the tabs of pop-songs on the net: how can you play those if
you don't how they sound in the first place? About the tablature in the Si
dolce, if I'd be a beginning guitar player I might use that, but then I'd
need to be told that I can strumm the open courses too. Either give a
written out part for absolute beginners: rhythm and open courses added, or
just give the 'solutions' to the alfabetto. Either in tablature or
fingerboard grids. As it is, your tab stave suggests a playable part to me.
For now, La mia Turca is the winner for me.
David
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