> Weiss and Logy on archlute! Well, of course, everything is
> explanable, I can understand any individual approach.
It's not my approach. I'm into the baroque lute, to be sure. It was an
attempt. What I wanted to find out was whether or not it is feasible.
> One can buy Weiss or Logi on an archlute if it's for fun or pleasure.
> Equally well one can try Pulenc on theorbo or Kapsperger on modern
> harp, or Gershwin on balalaika
That's a bit of a stretch, don't you think? Italian lutenists like
Zamboni or dalla Casa were contemporaneous to Weiss and Logy, Weiss had
been to Rome for quite a while and had started his carreer there. I
simply wanted to know to what extend music by Logy or Weiss in
tablatures for D minor tuning is specific to that tuning
> But why the real baroque lute is such a black sheep
Would you agree with me, then, that there are at least four distinct
black sheep?
* 11c French
* 12c double headed (much of the repertoire French, again)
* 13c bass rider
* 13c swan neck
> Why the few maniacs only use baroque lute tuning for a
> continuo, in the age the instrument was born and used?
Not sure if I got your point right, but didn't Benjamin Narvey recently
make a strong case in favour of HIP continuo playing in D minor tuning.
Besides that, there still are the Fundamenta der Lautenmusique, an 18th
century=A0tutor for continuo playing in D minor tuning.
Mathias
> > > > > convenient... This way all - really nearly the =A0ALL! -
=A0the
> > > > > baroque solo-continuo stuff is playable by an archlute!
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yepp, that's true. I tried Logy and Weiss grand staff
> > > > transcriptions with the archlute and found them quite
> > > > feasable.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think I read somewhere that there actually is a courante by
Logy
> > > in an
> > > 18th century archlute version.
> > >
> > > In the much debated letter where Weiss describes his continuo
> > > lute, he
> > > also claims that neither archlute nor theorbo is any good for
> > > galanterie
> > > pieces. Of course, he was wrong... :-)
> > >
> >
> > Well, yes, of course >;) A bitmore serious, I'd quote in full that
> > the giraffes, which differ from each other, sound coarse and rude,
> > when you
> > come close, because they were played with nails.
> > I do not play Weiss wi-with na-na-nails, uff c-course.
> >
> > Mathias
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