> I'm sorry - but it not clear to me what you are trying to prove here. > Why > do you think that he leaves out the 5th course from these chords?
Once again: it was a tentative question. Why would Corbetta have written so many dots that seemingly are redundant as an instruction for the right hand? > They are not performing circus tricks. You don't > go out of you way to do things in the most awkward and inconvenient way > possible just for the sake of it. Chord N is not a circus trick at all. It's just one of the standard patterns of alfabeto. > 1. There are 8 chords in the basic sequence which will be 6/4s with > octave stringing but Bartolotti has included lettere tagliate for only > three > of these - G P and F. > > Why is that? Why not just indicate that the 5th course should be left out > of all them always? 6/4 chords should only be used in very specific > circumstances. Easy to ask with hindsight. However, history does not work like that. It's a modification of good old alfabeto. Changes often go stepwise, as we can learn from the far more precise battuto system from Bartolotti's next book. There you'll find the chord shapes you are asking for, but mostly in tablature. > There are a small number of places, but not many, where it is necessary or > convenient to leave out the 5th course from Chord F. > So he uses it occasionally. Can you explain then why there are more F's with a tagliate than without? > Look at the Corrente on p.57 and tell m - why he has put a standard Chord > F > in bar 4 and and an F tagliata in bar 13? Exactly the same harmonic > progression - a Phrygian cadence but F tagliata in one place and not the > other. Get your guitar out and play it and you will see the difference > in > the left hand fingering. I just did. I find nothing to support your case. Maybe you should show these examples to an experienced player? > If Bartolotti was such a brilliant composer I would expect him to leave > out > all the 6/4 chords, not just now and again. Sometimes brilliant composers are not as precise in their notation as you would like to see. They don't always fullfil modern expectations. > Either he was extremely careless and slovenly in the way he notated his > music - an absolute idiot - or he had a different reason for his lettere > tagliate from what you wish to believe. The qualification is yours. The state of affairs was like this. He invented a better notational system after the publication of his first book. But he treated also that new system with negligence, I'm afraid. Bartolotti was a pioneer, after all. > I don't have the slightest problem with the idea that Bartolotti might > have > used octave stringing on both the 4th and 5th courses. > > All I am saying is that if he did he wasn't the least bit worried about > 6/4 > chords. We should conclude then that you avoid to give an explanation for the existence of the category of tagliate chords without passing notes. This could be crucial for the validity of your theory. So far I tend to rather believe Boye's argument. Lex To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
