On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Monica Hall wrote:
The guitar is, compared to other instruments, easy to transport and
easy to play, and unlike the theorbo, the accompanying parts are not
reversed and are therefore more like the voice parts.
I think that what Campion means by this is that the guitar doesn't
have
the first and second courses tuned down an octave like the theorbo,
so
that the accompanying parts will be in the right order on the
instrument above the bass part instead of being in the wrong order as
on the theorbo.
It couldn't refer to French tab vs Italian, could it? The guitar often
has re-entrant tuning too. So what is reversed and more like voice
parts? In what sense are the accompanying parts reversed? Hmm.
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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[2]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
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