Dear Arne: That is a real possibility and as you will find out it is sometimes true, there are numerous mistakes in both the printed tablature and manuscripts. However the mistakes and misprints are not so common that they present an insurmountable obstacle. But as you gain experience you will discover these things because you will become familiar with patterns and clichés that reoccur. Most of the time it is pretty easy to identify mistakes.
However in some situations where there seems to be a more logical way of playing a particular passage the more difficult fingering is not just to show off but to take advantage of how the notes play in that register or, and more importantly, sometimes they are not quite in tune when played somewhere else. This is not always the quickest or most logical way of playing something, but it may be the only way of playing it in tune. If you have been following this list for a while you are probably aware that one of the major discussion to come up around here is the issue of tuning the Lute. Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arne Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:38 AM Subject: Re: Perhaps of interest > At 23:03 14-09-2004 -0400, Roman Turovsky wrote: > >>> As I say, I managed that in two weeks. I have been playing the lute for=20 > >>> around a year now, and still cannot read lute music as I can other > music, th= > >>> ough of=20 > > and so on. And then: > > "The composer has already figured out the most > logical and the quickest way to achieve what he had in mind." > > I would like to think so, too. > > But in some of the 1500s tabs, one wonders about the possibility > of the printer having been left with a template, causing the output to be > practically unplayable? > > Arne Keller. > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
