I place harmonies below the melody line (which is often the vox principalis) when I perform chord accompaniments on the guitar. However, when I place harmonies on the theorbo, these harmonies are above the melody. For this reason, there is requisite period of readjustment each time I transition from theorbo to jazz guitar due to this concept. Not to be simplistic, but could your provided quote refer to the tenor voice of the guitar and its lower accompaniments as compared to the bass voice of theorbo?
Fred Bone -----Original Message----- >From: Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 14, 2009 6:03 AM >To: LuteNet list <[email protected]> >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Campion > > 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 > [1][email protected] > [2]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > -- > >References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
