>>> Christopher Stetson 11/25/2008 5:59 PM >>> Hi, Good question, Eugene. There is no indication of octave stringing in any staff notation that I know of, just the fundamental note. I never thought about it, since I played the tablature. I don't think, however, that the practice in and of itself qualifies the transcribers as "fundamentalists".
I think that Dana hinted at what I always assumed was the reason: the assumption among the Americans and the French appears to have been that a scholarly researcher should be able to play the music on the piano. There were only a few people who had John Ward's demonstrated ability to realize all sorts of tablature directly to the keyboard. The German and English editions seemed to favor guitar transcriptions, if I recall correctly. It was, by the way, a real pain. I spent hours writing pieces out by hand to avoid the page turns in all but the shortest pieces. It could result in the preservation of the "Stetson Lute Book (ca. 1985)", though! Further there were, or at least it felt like there were, a lot fewer lute enthusiasts back then, and we were less concerned with those kinds of details. Even in the small venues I played, people would still approach you after the concert and ask, "what's that instrument you were playing?" Perhaps Arthur can clarify this? Best to all, and keep playing Chris. >>> "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/25/2008 5:21 PM >>> Out of curiosity, all ye to read from this edition or Arthur himself, how do the grand staff versions handle octave basses? Thanks, Eugene At 03:29 AM 11/25/2008, David Tayler wrote: >I play from the grand staff in Ness's edition, I first mark any >differences to the tab, then cut and paste them--fewer page turns. >The parts are very nicely realized in the transcription. >dt > > >At 06:39 PM 11/24/2008, you wrote: > >Hi, all, > >I just checked, and yes, Mr. Ness's old Francesco edition does have > >grand staff, as do all of the old Corpus des Luthistes Francais > >volumes from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. (Ballard > >1&2, Bocquet, Morlaye, etc.) > >Good luck, Guy! > >Best to all, and keep playing, > >Chris. > > > > >>> "Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/24/2008 5:10 PM >>> > >There's a lot of guitar transcriptions out there, if guitar staff is OK. If > >you need grand staff, a couple that come immediately to mind are the > >Kanazawa Holborne, and the Ness Francesco volumes (I think Arthur included a > >grand staff version with that edition, but I don't have a copy myself). > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Herbert Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:01 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [LUTE] Material for sight reading. > > > > > >What is a good way to get a quantity of sight-reading material > >in the keys of C, F, and G? I need modern staff notation (not > >tablature), like modern-day piano music. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
