----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <early-guitar@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:30 AM Subject: [EARLY-GUIT] Re: Wagner and the guitar
>I guess it needs a study of the score. I'll be performing it with Scottish > Symphony Orchestra in late August. Apparently the song is in e minor, and > fits the guitar like a glove. Like Schubert, Wagner may have referenced > the > lute whilst playing a guitar. I'll try to check out the full score during > rehearsals, to see if the fugue does indeed use guitar tuning. > > Rob I don't know about the fugue, and I don't have a score here, but if the fugure subject was based on the tuning of the guitar it would be a series of fourths (though perhaps an e-minor arpeggio would be enough to make the association). Or perhaps the guitar tuning is at a lower structural level - Ginastera based the large scale structures of entire orchestral works (the ballet Ollantay for example), on a literal series of the open strings of the guitar in order, each structural level appearing several minutes apart - a compositional game of the composer rather then something a listener is likely to likelt to pick up under a largely atonal surface. SY To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
