Monica Hall wrote:
> Double octave stringing is mostly suitable only for strumming as Sanz says. Gaspar Sanz: For those who wish to use the guitar to play noisy music, or to accompany the bass of a tono [a vocal work] or sonada, the guitar is better strung with bourdons than without them His examples of basso continuo in tablature are completely without strumming. > And there is a tendency to overdo the vigorous strumming anyway. > One of the other problems with using octave stringing in music like > Roncalli's is that it creates an imbalence between the strummed chords and the counterpoint. > You have thin sounding passage work punctuated by thumping 5-part chords - and no reall bass line. The balance depends fully on the technical abilities of the player, not on octave strings. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
