> At 10:13 AM 8/30/2005, Ed Durbrow wrote: > > > If you're playing the cello suites, it's > > > no more authentic to play them on the lute than the CG -- is it > > > easier? > > > >I think it IS more authentic since there are contemporary examples in > >tablature of Bach's music and the CG as we know it didn't exist then. > > > I don't know...transcription is transcription. Not all transcriptions are created equal. CG is sufficiently removed from JSB's era to be in the same trnscription category as, say, marimba.
Without specific period > precedent, like BWV 995, I don't perceive modern transcription for lute > very different from that for 6-string guitar. However, I have always > wondered why modern guitarists shun baroque guitar music in favor of > transcription from music for wholly dissimilar instruments like cello or > violin. Because it makes no sense on CG, as was pointed by Herr Advokat. RT Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes. == http://polyhymnion.org ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
