Mjos & Larson wrote:
I also think of scordatura less as playing in another key (although
that may well be in a composer's mind given the idea of keys and
emotions: see http://www.library.yale.edu/~mkoth/keychar.htm
<http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Emkoth/keychar.htm> for example), but
that it creates interesting and different sonorities, interval
possibilities, and fingerings.
Recently I stumbled across this video of Antonello Lixi
performing Kapsberger's Toccata arpeggia:
http://weblogs.clarin.com/guitarras-del-mundo/archives/2007/10/antonello_lixi_y_su_guitarra_barroca.html
I began to transcribe his arrangement, then decided just to transcribe
K's original and arrange it myself. An altered tuning seemed necessary
to come even close to following the original pitches. Stuart's
"Foscarini" tuning led me to try it (twice). I also tried a version
with the fifth course lowered a half step. The results
(Kapsberger_Solos2_rsm.pdf) can be downloaded from my Ning page:
http://earlyguitar.ning.com/profile/RockyMjos
Monica's research has given even more possibilities! Thank you! (Meant
both sarcastically and sincerely)
-- Rocky
Wow! I've been looking at Kapsberger_Solos2_rsm.pdf. I don't know this
music and I'm really surprised at all the harmonies. (I don't know
anything about this but I thought that continuo at this time was mostly
major chords, minor chords, 6-3s and 4-3s).
I've just looked at the first two (the two versions of the one piece)
and they are quite a bit too difficult for me. Do you play them? Also
I've got my two lower courses (in the alternative tuning) bB dD and I
think you'd really need BB DD. Were you thinking of all the notes on the
lower courses as unambiguously low? Even with a rock solid right hand
technique on those arpeggios it must be quite difficult to give these
pieces direction?
I enjoyed the video of Antonello Lixi.
Stuart
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