..And frankly, I think a direct transcription of the tablature without taking the time to make guitar arrangements would still be of great use to any thinking guitarist who would care to work from a source closer to the original.
Since tablature relates only to relative pitches, setting the first course at e' wouldn't even require transposition. ...Or setting it at g' in the main body of your document and including an appendix in e' wouldn't require much additional effort (certainly not as much as fully fingered transcriptions/arrangements for 6-string guitar), and I would think would still likely be frequently used/cited by guitarists. Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:19 AM > To: List LUTELIST; Bruno Correia > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Transcription > > 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. > > 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.) > > Chris > > --- On Wed, 1/6/10, Bruno Correia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Bruno Correia <[email protected]> > > Subject: [LUTE] Transcription > > To: "List LUTELIST" <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 9:46 AM > > Could anybody give > > his/her opinion about this issue: > > > > > > > > At the moment I am analysing the > > Kapsperger 1611 lute book for my Doc. > > dissertation. All the musical examples > > will be written with Django tab > > writer adding (automatically) its > > transcription. My question is: should > > the transcription be written on a single > > or double staff (treble and > > bass clefs)? I think that a single staff > > is more economical... > > > > > > > > I thought for a moment to transcribe it > > in (e) in order to easy the > > access to guitarists, but perhaps its > > just a fool idea. After all they > > don't have the deep basses (10 course). > > > > > > > > Appreciate any comments. > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
