At 06:02 PM 12/9/2003 +0000, Monica Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Even Campion could >hardly have written all his guitar music using seven different scordature in >staff notation.
We do not know that. If the music was written in tablature, it could very well have been written in pitch notation as well. The point to consider is that in his own reference to the Novelles Decouverts, Campion said this: Yet, I have conformed to the use of tablature, in a book of guitar pieces that I published, where there are 8 different manners of tuning: in this case the tablature is useful; but those who wish to use it, must first well know their fingerboard by music (Traité d'accompagnement et de composition selon la regle des octaves de musique...., Oeuvre second, Paris, 1716). The question, then as now, is not and either/or proposition. Whatever the reason one uses tablature, without a thorough theoretical understanding of the music, you learn to play by rote. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com
