I have wrote an article about the beckmesser, Wagner and the lute that is actually a guitar. It was written in Polish, so it will take me a moment to translate, but I promise to post it here no later than Monday.
One thing for further discussion: the song is not a fugue of course. Not in a formal sense. Does "Fugue" has another meaning in English? Maybe Bone was thinking about the texture in running eights? The Ginastera quote is quite another problem, it is much deeper actually than just dealing with Old/New World music. We can discuss it later, but for my part the departing point would be my Wagner article to follow shortly. Regards Krzysztof Dnia 23-06-2006 o godz. 17:16 Stanley Yates napisa³(a): > > ----- 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 > ---------------------------------------------------- Chcia³by¶ zagraæ w POKERA ON-LINE ale nie chcesz nic p³aciæ? Zagraj z nami! Darmowy polski poker on-line na Wirtualnej Polsce: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=www.gol.wp.pl%2Fgry.online-poker.draw.html&sid=799
