I think of the simpler Bewick and the more ornate NM version together as the germ of a short variation set. But they would need some tweaking to fit - the NM version is certainly not hexatonic.
John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Seattle Sent: 08 February 2011 16:12 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM, <[1][email protected]> wrote: > Also, it's a song and all of the singers I have backed prefer that key. Yes, it would be horribly high in A min unless you were a natural light tenor. Fair enough. George Welch sings it in B minor - [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=map9v2neGbA and Judy Dinning sings it in A minor. As a non-NSP player I had assumed that it would feel more at home on the un-keyed notes. Robert Bewick has it in A minor in a setting which has high a and omits f. -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=map9v2neGbA To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
