Dear All, I am in the process of transcribing a version of "Joy to the Person" for archlute. This link points to what I am working from: http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joy_to.pdf
I guess the only original part is the melody and that all the rest was written by Steven Hendricks, whoever that may be. I have a problem with the A minor cord at the beginning of the penultimate measure of the second system. Originally, I had that as an E on the 8th course together with an open third course a, but I do not like the sound of that, and that is where my wild speculation starts. The game I think I should play is that I treat Hendrick's (?) bass line as holy, apart from octave liberties. If one were to play a realization of that bass line, I do not think one would play an A minor chord in second inversion on the first beat of measure 7, but possibly a first inversion C major chord would be OK given the stepwise motion of the bass. (This seems to have the blessing of Coprario, Simpson, Locke and Mace, which beats a blessing of the the Holy Trinity by one.) So far, this is what I have in tab: http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/Joy/joytab.pdf Obviously, I am way out of my physics depth here, so please straighten me out. Thanks, Peter. the next auto-quote is: In violence we forget who we are. (Mary McCarthy) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
