[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-25 Thread Monica Hall
The first book with campanelas (Bartolotti) is from 1640. Actually the first person to have a go is Foscarini. The Passacaglio variato on p.100 in scordatura has two short passages on the 4th line. The second group is a straightforward little scale passage. The first group I suspect he

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-25 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
The first book with campanelas (Bartolotti) is from 1640. Actually the first person to have a go is Foscarini. The Passacaglio variato on p.100 in scordatura has two short passages on the 4th line. The second group is a straightforward little scale passage. The first group I

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-25 Thread Monica Hall
course only. Shades of things to come. M - Original Message - From: Lex Eisenhardt eisenha...@planet.nl To: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:42 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? The first

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Martyn Hodgson
jeanmichel.catheri...@yahoo.com wrote: From: jean-michel Catherinot jeanmichel.catheri...@yahoo.com Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk, Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Martyn Hodgson
in the slightly early 4 course guitar/gittern repertory and the earliest 5 course music is simply strummed chords. MH --- On Tue, 23/11/10, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
: Mer 24 novembre 2010, 10h 04min 05s Objet : Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Who says I tune my guitar(s) at A440? I used this pitch in my analysis simply as a convenient reference point. But I don't think anybody would argue that a major

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Monica Hall
I think the actual evidence from the time is minute - something in Stradivarius and ? at most a couple of other things? (Plus something much later? Merchi? - when the bass notes are unambiguously bass notes anyway). Rather surprisingly the one 17th century mention of this practice is in Ruiz

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Monica Hall
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 9:55 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? I only says that a minor third below 440 is the tuning indicated by Carbonchi (GCFAD), at a pitch of a=415. On instruments with a diapason of 69 cm (as Sellas

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Walsh
On 24/11/2010 12:54, Monica Hall wrote: Rather surprisingly the one 17th century mention of this practice [having the low note on the thumb side] is in Ruiz de Ribayaz's Luz y norte musical. It's astonishing really. Hundreds of guitar publications and MSS in the seventeenth century and

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-24 Thread Monica Hall
It's astonishing really. Hundreds of guitar publications and MSS in the seventeenth century and just one mention of it. and yet everyone today uses this method of stringing with bourdons. The actual evidence is so slight. One possible reason why it is seldom mentioned is because the commonest

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Martyn Hodgson
: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 22 November, 2010, 23:25 Thanks for the blessing of sorts... discretion being in the eye of the beholder

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Despopoulos
@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 5:15:03 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Whatever the case is for an octave on the third course (and to me it seems so very slim as to be negligible compared with all the evidence

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com Cc : Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Envoye le : Mar 23 novembre 2010, 11h 15min 03s Objet : [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Whatever the case is for an octave on the third course (and to me it seems so very

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Martyn Hodgson
! MH --- On Tue, 23/11/10, jean-michel Catherinot jeanmichel.catheri...@yahoo.com wrote: From: jean-michel Catherinot jeanmichel.catheri...@yahoo.com Subject: Re : [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread jean-michel Catherinot
23 novembre 2010, 11h 15min 03s Objet : [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Whatever the case is for an octave on the third course (and to me it seems so very slim as to be negligible compared with all the evidence - other than our modern

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Batov
Well, this is not quite correct. The original string length of surviving guitars by Rene / Alexandre / Jean Voboam would be somewhere between 69 - 71 cm. Most of them were converted to shorter string lengths (sometime between 1730 - early 19th century) by shortening of the neck and / or moving

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Stuart Walsh
On 23/11/2010 22:08, Alexander Batov wrote: I quite agree with Martyn that the use of an octave on the third course is a bit of an overkill with all-gut stringing, whatever SL is there. And lets not forget that the main purpose of octave stringing in olden times was to enhance the sound

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-23 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
But - as usual - the Baroque guitar seems to be different from other plucked instruments of the time in that the low string and the octave above it are positioned in reverse from the norm. On lutes (etc) , on the lower courses with octaves, the thumb hits the low note first

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Despopoulos
! cud __ From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com To: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sat, November 20, 2010 5:29:16 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-22 Thread Monica Hall
Which fugue is it? Monica - Original Message - From: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com To: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:54 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Despopoulos
Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, November 22, 2010 11:29:50 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Which fugue is it? Monica - Original Message - From: Chris

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-22 Thread Monica Hall
Despopoulos To: [2]Monica Hall Cc: [3]Vihuelalist Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? Fuga Primera, por primer Tono al ayre Espanyol, the open G string in measures (counting from

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Despopoulos
: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, November 22, 2010 2:22:36 PM Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? That is why some people do argue that octave stringing on the 3rd course is intended. Gordon Ferries plays it on his

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Martyn Hodgson
. --- On Sun, 21/11/10, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Stuart Walsh
On 21/11/2010 09:45, Lex Eisenhardt wrote: Even Carre has mentioned the 4th course bourdon, halfway his book. Some have taken this as an indication that he wanted French tuning for accompani ment (compare Sanz). We can't be sure. I only know the first publication of Carré. At the end of the

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Monica Hall
Here we go again. The only person who unequivocally states that his music is for the fully re-entrant tuning is Valdambrini. (And very few people unequivocally state that their music is for any other specific tuning). I don't thank that Murcia's Resumen or Matteis is intended for the fully

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Martyn Hodgson
...@ntlworld.com wrote: From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: Lex Eisenhardt eisenha...@planet.nl Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Sunday, 21 November, 2010, 11:11

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Monica Hall
-entrant tuning. Monica - Original Message - From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk To: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 12:40 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread wikla
Thanks to everyone for introducing b-guitar to a theorbist! While thinking of b-guitar I had to tube some strumming on b-lute, a Sarabande by Mercure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTZKpXIx1Dg Arto To get on or off this list see list information at

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-21 Thread Monica Hall
Lovely Arto. Nice to know that lutenists do it too. Monica - Original Message - From: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi To: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 1:21 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-20 Thread Stuart Walsh
Dear flat-back lutenists, is there any repertoire/composer of baroque guitar that/who without any modern disagreement definitely used the double re-entrant tuning - the 5th and 4th having only in the upper octaves? De Visee perhaps? An interesting question. I'd like to see a list too. And a

[VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all?

2010-11-20 Thread Martyn Hodgson
--- On Sat, 20/11/10, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Any b-guitar repertoire in all re-entrant accepted by all? To: wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Saturday, 20