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From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 8:52 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Capona Espagnola (Gallot)
About the Capona, Monica says:
"Apparently it is a characteristic of the Capona that it divides into two
irregular phrases, one of 5 beats and the other of 7. 5 crotchets
followed
by 7 crotchets or 3 minims plus a crotchet I.e. a sort of hemiola."
Now that's really something! ...Anyway, Rocky put up an edition of a
Capona Espagnola from the Gallot guitar MS.
I couldn't access this or your recording for some reason. However as I
said the rhythm should be
C C / C C C / C C / C C / C C / C //
if C= crotchet and M= minim. The crotchet may be dotted followed by a
quaver. Piccinini hasn't barred it correctly bu Lynda Sayce does it
perfectly. This seems to be common practice in early 17th century not
to indicate the anancrucis. They don't always bar things in the way we
would consider correct possibly because they weren't all that musically
literate.
I had a quick go at the Gallot but didn't think much of it. He has made a
mess of it I think. Don't expect too much of these people!
Monica
Monica say that "Gallot or his servant Monnier isn't always entirely
accurate.
He has barred it wrongly which he quite often does with pieces which start
with an anacrucis". The Caponas in Carbonchi start on the second beat of
the bar too and no doubt, this should too.
I had a go at playing it. I found very challenging trying to play and yet
it doesn't sound much at all, listening to it. I don't think I'm phrasing
it correctly - but I don't think I could conceive (get my head around) a
5 beat phrase followed by a 7 beat one.
Has anyone else had a go? The notes are easy, the notation is
straightforward but it's just seems very odd. I'd be really interested to
hear other peoples' reactions to it. And I'd recommend anyone to have a
go even at just the last four bars - just single notes - and maybe phrase
it 5 beats, the seven beats.
Well here's a go at it. I was really disappointed because I expected it to
sound much more rhythmically surprising. It felt like it should be when I
was playing it (many, many times with a metronome in an ear piece!)
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/CaponaGallot.mp3
Stuart
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