I understand, Ron. It's just that other sources use two points for
middle finger if it's meant to be, but of course, there was probably no
standard for that.
From playing Ballard's music, a thumb-in technique feels much more
natural for the passages in question - while other music, for example
some Laurencini pieces feel better using index-middle strokes.
I found myself to be automatically drawn to a certain playing style with
certain music.
Sometimes it doesn't seem historical. But I can't help playing many
Borrono dances with the later technique, it just feels better.
On 02.08.19 02:51, Ron Andrico wrote:
Tristan, while Vallet was very specific about right-hand fingering, I'm
fairly certain there are no indications for thumb-index alternation in
Ballard's music, and it's a leap to think that articulation marks are
specifically tied to right-hand fingering. Yes, there are right-hand
dots but I remain unconvinced that these single dots are specific to
use of the right-hand index finger. The dots could just as well simply
indicate weak beats so the reader can keep track for the purpose of
articulation, regardless of which digit is used on the strong beat.
RA
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Robert Ballard seems to have used thumb in though, as the points show.
And that was after Besard and Dowland.
I think the music always suggests thumb-out, if it was supposed to be
played that way.
If you have passages in the upper part accompanied by deep bass, you
automatically use index-middle-finger, because it's easier to play.
Some tablatures seem to even suggest both techniques in one piece.
The same pieces have different fingerings in different sources
sometimes.
On 01.08.19 22:03, Mathias Rösel wrote:
> Well, I've been a member on the list as well. As it seems to me,
all
> authors after 1600 who deal with this subject recommend thumb
out.
> Vallet even ridicules thumb in.
> We'll never know what player actually did, if they complied with
the
> recommendations. Today, research on strings and soundboards
points into
> the same direction: thumb out.
> Everybody is free, if course, to do what they like best.
Everybody has
> been so, ever since. I don't care. And I don't want to listen to
> players who play the baroque lute thumb in, any more.
> my two cents. just an ordinary member
> Mathias
>
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> --- Original-Nachricht ---
> Von: G. C.
> Betreff: [LUTE] Re: RH folk style
> Datum: 01.08.2019, 21:46 Uhr
> An: Lutelist
>
> Eloquently said Ron, as always!
> G.
> tor. 1. aug. 2019 kl. 21.28 skrev Ron Andrico
> <[1][2][email protected]>:
> Relax, Howard. No one is on trial here. Perhaps anathema is a
> less
> apt choice to describe alternatives to a right-hand position for
> playing post-1600 repertory on proper lutes. But for all
> intents and
> purposes, thumb-under technique is certainly not an historically
> appropriate right-hand position for what we call baroque lute.
> That is
> not to say it was never used, but Besard (Dowland) and Vallet,
> said it
> in print, and there are countless pictorial representations from
> the
> period that strongly suggest the right-hand thumb was very, very
> much
> out.
> This is a difficult truth to countenance for all those notable
> soldiers
> of the famous 1970s thumb-under brigade, who fought long and
> loudly to
> distinguish themselves from lute-dabbling classical guitarists
> (even to
> the point of eschewing the wearing of the ceremonial black
> turtleneck),
> but it is a truth nonetheless. I'll say it here: Based upon the
> body
> of surviving evidence from the period, lutes with diapasons
> designed to
> be used for post-1600 music were historically intended to be
> played
> with the right-hand thumb out, not under.
> RA
>
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howard
> posner
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> To: Lutelist <[5][6][email protected]>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH folk style
> I'm not aware of anyone on this stating categorically that
> thumb-in is
> anathema on the d-minor lute. But I could easily have missed
> it, or
> deleted it and forgotten about it. I tend not to waste time
> dealing
> with categorical statements about how every player in history
> played
> the same way. And if, by chance, I've ever written anything here
> in the
> last 25 years that sounds like a categorical statement about the
> way
> every player, ever, played the same way, chalk it up to sloppy
> writing
> (or thinking), delete it, and forget about it.
> > On Aug 1, 2019, at 9:23 AM, G. C. <[6][7][email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > People on this list f. ex.?
> To get on or off this list see list information at
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