LOL... ["the missing course is the 1st (not the 6th), and what I read compared these pieces for 5c vihuela to pieces for the 5c lute. Ostensibly, those were written to be played when one had broken the chanterelle and did not have another one handy. And that may have been Fuenllana's purpose also."]
That works!... (but it takes even more intense concentration than avoiding the 6th course when playing 5-line BG pieces on a vihuela!!! ) Rob, someday when you have some "extra" time on your hands, would it be too much trouble to add an extra blank line to the "guitar" .pdf file??) Thanks for the clue Michael! a On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Michael Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob -- Thanks for all the Fuenllana TABs. They look great! > > It seems that very little has been written about the 5c vihuela. I used to > think it was the immediate forerunner of the 5c guitar, but I read > something > that changed my thinking -- and I cannot now remember what it was I read -- > maybe Jacobs's intro to his edition of Fuenllana. > > Compared to the usual 6c vihuela, the missing course is the 1st (not the > 6th), and what I read compared these pieces for 5c vihuela to pieces for > the > 5c lute. Ostensibly, those were written to be played when one had broken > the > chanterelle and did not have another one handy. And that may have been > Fuenllana's purpose also. I believe it was, since his book is so > comprehensive and detailed in other respects. > > 5c lute pieces are sorta rare, but they do exist. If anyone on the vihuela > or lute lists can shed some light on this, and maybe direct us to some 5c > lute pieces, it would be greatly appreciated! > > Cheers, > > Mike > ____________________________ > > Michael Fink > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob MacKillop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 4:30 AM > To: Vihuela > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Fuenllana 5c vihuela > > That message got sent before I had finished writing it...Here is the full > version: > > > Fuenllana composed and intabulated pieces for the 5c vihuela. How this > instrument differed from the 5c guitar with bourdons on the 4th and 5th is > a > little bit of a mystery. His 6c vihuela seems to have been quite small, > judging by the stretches required of the left hand. The 5c tablature seems > to be no different. There is frequesnt use of letter f on the first course > simultaneoulsy with letter b on the second course. That being the case, how > did his 5c differ from his 6c other than having a course missing in the > bass? And what modern performer would commission a 5c vihuela when a 6c > would cover everything? Perhaps the 5c was re-entrant? Not so, judging by > the tablature. Going on the musical style and tablature layout, I see no > difference between his 6c and 5c repertoire. > > Judge for yourself. Here is the tablature for all his 5c pieces - PLAYABLE > ON THE 5c BAROQUE GUITAR (at a stretch) - in Italian, French and Milan's > 'Guitar-type' tablature: http://www.rmguitar.info/scores.htm > > Enjoy. > > Rob MacKillop > www.songoftherose.co.uk > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html> > > > --
