There may be reason to rethink the splitting of the 4th course in renaissance
guitar technique. In the December 2012 LSA Quarterly, Michael Fink has strongly
argued for playing the octave seperately in the lowest course of the
renaissance guitar under cetain circumstances and for certain reasons.
Apparently the Giovanni Smit chitarrina (1646) is a prime example. He
reproduces the plate (6.5) from James Tyler's 2002 book and it is a
significantly wider space within that course.
He also reproduces the drawing (~1583-1587) by Jacques Cellier for presentation
to Henry III of France. It requires a bit of photoshop magic to bring it out
but it, too, has a wider split at the 4th course.
The Commedia dell'Arte Guitar (ca. 1630?) in the print of actor Carlo Cantu
("Buffetto") printed as the frontispiece in Tyer's 1980 book also reveals
course IV is split wider.
He further shows the usefulness of playing the octave over the full course in a
variety of examples.
Sean
On May 12, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Martin Shepherd wrote:
Let's not get confused here - the "split course" technique consists of stopping
only one string of a unison course so that the course produces two different
notes. This was used by Capirola, Fuenllana, Bakfark, and possibly others.
Playing the strings of an octave course separately is a completely different
technique, not used (as far as I know) before Mouton in the late 17th century.
Martin
On 12/05/2015 18:25, Lex van Sante wrote:
> Yes, for instance in Rechercar XIII one has to finger one string of the
> fourth course and plucking both of them.
> Op 12 mei 2015, om 18:18 heeft Monica Hall het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Does Capirola say that you should play one or other string of an octave
>> strung course?
>> Monica
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>>> I suppose he meant Capirola.
>>> Chris
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>>> At May 12, 2015, 8:27:26 AM, Monica Hall<'[email protected]'>
>>>
>>> "Fuenllana (1554) prescribes playing only one of the two strings in the
>>> course in some passages (as does Dalza - does he?)"
>>> As far as I am aware this is not what Fuenllana does. What he does do
>>> is
>>> play two different notes on the same course - stopping one string of a
>>> course and leaving the other unstopped.
>>>
>>> References
>>>
>>> 1. https://yho.com/footer0
>>>
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