Dear Jerzy, checking the source would be great, but unfortunately I share your plight, not owning a copy or facsimile of Vm7 6214. I have to rely on the CNRS edition.
I wasn't familiar with the dating by Rave. The sisters Bocquet flourished during the 1640ies, so there are some 30 years between this copy and its possible authors. 30 years of change in style and aesthetics... I wasn't looking for the one and only appropiate execution of commas. I'm suspicious that what I was actually looking for, was some support for the execution of commas as simple trills. Mace is a good place, as someone mentioned. Not as a rule, and by far not at all places. Just e. g. with the opening chord of allemande #7. I was seeking liberation from the rule that baroque trills, and French baroque trills in particular, are always to be preceded by appogiature. With that opening chord, an appogiatura on the root would obscure and confuse the recognition of the key. And that's not what ornaments are generally supposed to serve as. > some sort of ornamental dissonace at the very begining. At the first > chord of your Allemande (7) section B, there is also > 'something' (inverted mordent?) which creates 'harmonic confusion'. > Similar coma at the first chord have also the Sarabande (18) and > 'Autre facon' (19)... &ct. With these two, I have less difficulties, as the comma affects the 5th above the root. If executed as an appogiatura, the opening chord is a first inversion, turning back into the basic form which then turns into a leading major 6th (f-e-f sharp above A). That is playful but not ubscuring IMHO. > remember, the music have to please, not cause a headache, even the > 'historical music' ;-)) YES, wholeheartedly agreed. Mathias > > Dear Jerzy, > > > > it's amazing to me, indeed, how a baroque piece that starts with > > a 7th > > in the opening chord, comes to your mind just like that. > > > >> As you asked David, I'll refrain from answering that particular > > questio. > > > > I didn't mean to ask David Tayler exclusively because I prefer open > > discussions rather than dialogues, and, second, David is not the > > only > > expert on this subject. > > > > Mathias > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- Viele Grüße Mathias Rösel http://mathiasroesel.livejournal.com http://www.myspace.com/mathiasroesel http://de.geocities.com/mathiasroesel
