I mostely agree to your points - although I haven't had problems reading it and didn't found omited fingering a problem and "level of difficulty" is a topic on it's own. Actually I thought Stefan would have found just the right compromise of adding fingerings on tricky passages but not getting the edition unreadable bacause of too many editorial additions (like fingerings, tenuto signs etc.). The latter BTW surely helped in my case to read the unused font (I guess he used Sibelius).
I would recommend the edition not just to most but to *all* amateurs and teachers :-) - $99, € 75.00, £ 50.00 isn't much for the large amount of music which you'll get for it. Best wishes Thomas Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 21:30 schrieb Daniel Shoskes: > I mostly agree. For me the pluses and minuses: > > 1) Very well put together collection, which as you say lays flat and > has no page turns > 2) Clearly states for every piece the minimum number of courses and > tuning of the base courses > but > 3) font used is not the most readable. At a distance I often confuse > the a's and the d's > 4) Occasional questionable attribution (I noticed a cutting galliard > attributed to somebody else; maybe there is disagreement in the > primary sources) > 5) Some pieces side by side vary quite a bit in difficulty. Not an > issue for the advanced player but the beginner-intermediate may struggle > 6) Since at its heart it is a book for the student, at least a few > right hand fingerings for sections that are difficult and could be > approached several different ways would have helped. > > Overall I am very pleased and recommend the edition to most amateurs > and teachers. > > DS -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Three switched witches watch three swatch watch switches. Which switched witch watches which swatch watch switch?" To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
