Dear collected wisdom, I have been studying the C-Major suite of Johann Gottfried Conradi for quite a time now, and I am aware of the fact, that he might be the editor and not the author. Some of the other pieces sound pretty much like Weiß, in my ears, but others do not. I also read the latest discussions in this mail-forum about this subject.
My first question is this one: Playing the c-Major Allemande, Courante and the Menuet, I have very much the feeling, that they should be played more or less the french way to sound natural. On the other side the Prelude ant the Giuge are certainly italian IMHO. This is just an impression of an amateur player, of course, but amazingly I found some similar ideas on a most beautiful CD of Ed Martin. He plays Allemande and Courante equally in the first place, and inegal in the repetition. Is there any evidence, to do it this way or the other one? My other question concerns the slur-marks (what ever this is in English). There are the ordinary ones, such as commas and legato-bows, of course. But there is also another one a turned bow under some letters. In the beginning I thought, it was just another sign for linking two tones, but looking more carefully on it, I cant find a real systematic in it. Sometimes a slur is even not possible. This is surprising for me, because the edition seams to be very carefully made in any other matter of articulation. So what does it mean than? Can somebody help me with my questions? Thank you very much, Jörg -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
