On 08/01/2012 12:48, Monica Hall wrote:
The Scottish, Skene mandore MS is more well known but the Ulm MS of
French mandore music (of the same time) is very good too. And the
pieces are much more carefully notated.
Here are a couple of courantes and a gavotte - played on a very small
guitar with a string length of 37 cms. Perhaps there were at least
two sizes of mandore: the really tiny (c. 30cm string length),
four-course mandore (some Ulm stuff, Chancy) , played with a plectrum
and a slightly larger, five course instrument ((Skene, Ulm, Gallot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnC0b9w8QyU
Stuart
Very nice but what is mandore tuning in this context?
Thanks. I don't know what you mean 'context'? I think the tuning of the
mandore at the time of its popularity was more or less fixed... apart
from the first course. So a four-course mandore was 5-4-5 (e.g.:
g-d-g-d) and a five-course instrument was 4-5-4-5 (e.g.: d-g-d-g-d). Of
course the actual pitch might be different. But on either four- or
five-course instruments the top course could be re-tuned: e.g. a tone
lower. But the bottom courses were not re-tuned.
So the mandore tuning is quite different from the mandolino tuning in
fourths (but not that that difference makes it a different instrument).
Stuart
Stuart
Monica
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