Monica Hall wrote:
Spelling has never been my strong point!
Monica
Good grief! I was pointing out my mis-spelling not yours!!!
That's a relief. In the past I have come up with things like Stradivarious
which caused much mirth.
Do you know anything that has been written about the Merchis? (Other than
Groves, Tyler and the SPES intro) Or any reason to think that a
publication that says it's by Giacomo Merchi rather than just M.Merchi,
should not be by Giacomo?
I really don't know much about either of them.
Monica
Stuart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar duo (Merchi)
Stuart Walsh wrote:
Finally got to listen to this. V. nice - but is it 2 Stuarts
playing - and are they playing baroque or classical guitars?
Monica
Thank you for listening Monica. It's just me playing - finally coming
to terms with a multi-track recording device I got ages ago. And it's
just my very (very!) humble five-course guitar - but with the bourdons
reversed so the thumb hits the bourdon first. According to Tyler this
publication is from 1757. I think it's a fine little Minuetto and it
has a sort of swaggeriness that sort of reminds me of Mertz from a
century later.
So now I'm fascinated by Merchi ("the Jack and Joe mystery"). There
seems to be very little on the Internet on the Merchi brothers - little
more than a couple of paragraphs about their concerts and speculations
about their dates. There is an online pdf in Italian on G or J's song
accompaniments. There is also the Groves entry which says that Giacomo
and Joseph Barnard are frequently confused. Tyler has a couple of pages
and the SPES edition of some of Giacomo's (if it was Giacomo?) works
and an introduction (in Italian). Do you know of anything else?
And, of course, your discussion of stringing from Joseph Bernard (not
Barnard!)on your website too!!
Stuart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh"
<[email protected]>
To: "Vihuelalist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:29 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Baroque guitar duo
Here's the Minuetto from the fourth Duetto 'a due chitarre' by
Giacomo Merchi...1770s-ish? James Tyler and Robert Spencer recorded
the preceding Allegro (how long ago!)and maybe recorded this one too.
Merchi also published 'Sei Duetti a Chitarra e Violino Con sordina'
and number 4 is almost the same as the fourth Duetto for two guitars
but there are a lot of small differences. The guitar/violin version
has an additional movement and, at a cursory glance, the
guitar/violin duets look a bit more fancy than the guitar duets.
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Minuetto.mp3
Stuart
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