Well, I'll have another bash.
What you actually wrote was 'Transposing lute song (intabulated parts)
isn't that hard for an experienced player'. And yes, that does rather
imply all 'experienced' players. But this isn't really the point is
it? - more to it is what evidence do you have for your assertion that
all these other 'experienced' players can readily transpose on sight?
I'm not particularly interested in what you tell me are your personal
accomplishments but in the more general application of your assertion
to other players. Perhaps you might address this?
Many thanks,
MH
--- On Wed, 30/11/11, David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
From: David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: A=392
To: "Baroque Lute List (E-mail)" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 30 November, 2011, 14:07
On 30 November 2011 14:46, Martyn Hodgson
<[1]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 ...
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