On 30 November 2011 14:46, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I think the same general query applies to modern players too - what evidence > have you for your assertion that all experienced players can transpose > tablature on sight?
Gosh, there goes my English again! Did I really write 'all experienced players'? Shouldn't think so. Make that 'experienced players', or read my mail again and see that's what I did write. The question should be, of course, what makes a player experienced (or good, or a pro, or a survivor in the rough world of lute song accompaniment)? Many lute song accompanists, dare I say experienced lute song accompanists, will agree transposing songs is a useful skill. Or carrying around a bag of transpositions, like Bob Spencer did. Perhaps that's what marks the experienced player: to be prepared for possible transpositions. Anyway, you mean you want to have a list of all the times I had to transpose on sight over the last 20- dd years? Or a list of the songs, or a list of the most common transpositions, most common reasons, or a rating of the relative success of my transpositions (could be embarrassing, let's leave that out). David - had a spontaneous transposition within a recit of Messiah last weekend, but the cello player and alto didn't transpose along. How petty of them, not going along with my half tone lower ... -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
