Dear Anthony, We've corresponded about the sonatas by Reggio before. In my view it all depends whether you are intending to produce a facsimile of the original sonatas - if so, a parallel modern transcription would be redundant since they are already in staff notation. Personally I should much prefer to see and use a facsimile.
Regarding an intabulation, it will depend on how he expected the instrument to be tuned. Presumably, as an Italian working in Siciliy, he employed the old (ie 'Renaissance') lute tuning which persisted in Italy well into the 18th century. Looking at the example in D (Sonata X) on your site I suspect an instrument favouring the sharp keys: so either in a nominal A or just possibly in E as the late 18th century mandora popular in some other parts of Europe. Also compare keys of Dalla Casa's solos written for an instrument of similar date in nominal G Martyn From: Anthony Hart <[email protected]> To: Lute List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 12:45 Subject: [LUTE] Lute publications Following my previous posts I am in the final stages of preparing the lute sonatas of Antonino Reggio. The delema is should I include the tablature in the samr volume as the staff edition of would it be better to publish two separate volumes. I intend to publish 4 volumes of 6 sonatas each. Anty suggestions? Many thanks Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
