Dear Monica,
What's the point you're trying to make by repeating this:
'And if there is a number following after [the letter] either above or
below, you should ensure that this can be heard clearly and
distinctly,
whether the stroke is made up or down. If after any such
Well - at last it seems we are on the same wave length!
I assume by slashes you mean stroke marks.
Monica
- Original Message -
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, September
Eh! - you mean you now agree that the slashes (what you call 'stroke'
marks) might equally mean discriminatory strumming (as I call it) as
well as just single notes - as you seemed to be saying was the case?
Also re this technique and cllear examples of use see my recent mailing
I call them stroke marks. Basically you can strum a chord which may
include 5, 4, 3, and very occasionally 2 courses. But single notes are
pucked. In Foscarini stroke marks sometimes mean you play a single note.
Because he is extremely inconsistent I think there are also situations where
Perhaps it is not that simple, dear Martyn! Perhaps Bellerofonte had a
point in his comment? Perhaps the guitarists already then were much more
pedantric than lutenists? Just check the pedanterie of the latest 100
or so messages in the so called vihuela list... Not too much about the
vihuela, but
