The tuning which Sanz (in Instruccion de musica (1674) recommends for
playing baroque guitar music featuring "campanellas" and elaborate
ornamentation is the "re-entrant tuning". That is there are no low octave
strings on the 4th and 5th courses so it is tuned aa d'd' gg bb e'.
Anyone who plays the baroque guitar can hardly avoid this style of play as
much of the music is full of campanella passages - i.e. scale passages in
which each successive note is played on a different course. However not
everyone thinks it necessary to leave off the low octave strings...
Not a feature of vihuela music, but sometimes occurs in music for theorbo
which also has a re-entrant tuning.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: vihuela list <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: campanellas
> i recently came across this little item on the baroque
> tuning of gaspar
> sanz:
>
> ".his curious tuning was used by the Baroque
> guitarists to create the campanellas effect, which was
> very popular in Italy. The campanellas ("little
> bells") effect was created by using as many open
> strings as possible. "The notes of the scale passages
> are allowed to ring on, one note melting into the next
> in the manner of harps or bells," creating a "charming
> confusion of tones."
>
> the source neglected to say what this tuning was -
> anyone know?
>
> does anyone on the list use this style of play? - i
> assume it's "sauce" for baroque guitar and vihuela as
> well.
>
> sincerely - bill
>
>
>
>
> "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." -
Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra
Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to:
http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm
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