Dear Chris, I Appreciate your comments. Read below please.
2010/1/6 <[1][email protected]> Bruno, Oops, sorry! I obviously mis-read your message and thought you meant the first theorbo book (this book uses 11 courses, anyway!). You clearly said lute book. The two staves for lute music always seems a bit superfluous for me. (Why do they do this? Is every single musicologist a wannabe pianist? Even if they are, would they really have trouble reading from a single staff?) One staff in octave transposing treble clef works is sufficient, especially for the texture of music like HK's. Well, that's a valid argument no doubt but it seems that the double stave gives a more clear sight of the voice leading and it is easier to read (not only for keyboard players but for us as well). With a few exceptions, Kapsperger's lute music actually works very well on guitar. The extra basses can usually be bumped up an octave without detriment. If I was doing this, I might add a guitar transcription as an appendix. But I probably wouldn't want to go to the trouble. (I think there may be a couple of guitar transcriptions of the book already on the market.) Very true, maybe later a version for guitar may come. Thanks. Chris -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
