Hi K, To be honest, I havn't played 19th-C guitar for over a year as I have been too busy with vihuela and lute, but I hope to find time soon to get back into it. From what I remember, I found that using Sor's technique (or at least what I imagine his technique to be, as close as I can get to it) gave me a good natural balance between voices. I think this had a lot to do with the way the thumb plays the bass strings. On the other hand (so to speak) I found it difficult to play his Op.9 at the speed people are used to hearing it today. This led me to the conclusion that either I was not playing well enough in Sor's style, or that the piece should be played slower than we have become used to hearing.
Is this your experience? Rob www.musicintime.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Krzysztof Komarnicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2005 09:24 To: rob Subject: Odp: [EARLY-GUIT] Re: Little finger, RH There are some details in your post that are of interest to me. I wonder if you refer to some technical solutions or just to your "feeling" of easiness and appropriateness? Best Regards Krzysztof Dnia 17-10-2005 o godz. 8:27 Rob MacKillop napisa³(a): > As I said in my original post, what people think of the technique > today is of no relevance to historic discussion. I try to base my > 19th-C guitar technique on what Sor describes. Mainly I only play Sor, > but ocassionally some other pieces. I think Sor gives a very good > description of how and why he uses his pinkie, and I think it helps in > playing his music. But Sor, by his own admission, was a bit of an > oddball (not his term!). His technique is pretty useless for Giuliani, > for instance. It helps to come towards Sor from a lute technique > rather than backwards from a modern classical guitar technique and > mind-set. > > Rob > www.musicintime.co.uk > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ---------------------------------------------------- W dzieñ i w nocy naKlubowo! kliknij: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=www.naklubowo.wp.pl&sid=534
