angevin...@att.net wrote:
Perhaps like many lute players, I started out playing lute strictly
from tablature. While I'm fluent reading mensural notation for
singing or other instruments, I've never mastered it with the lute. I
feel this is a lack, and would like to fix it - except for how much
work it is! Now I currently play both a tenor in G and an alto in A.
I can think of reasons why it would be "nice" to be able to read
mensural notation on each of them. But since the task at hand is
already difficult (and hard to motivate practicing), I really need to
pick either the G or the A and just learn that for now. Like most lute
players, I played some (classical) guitar first, so really it would
probably be slightly easier to learn the association from A lute to
mensural notation. But perhaps the G is more generally useful in the
long run.
Any advice from the collected wisdom?
Suzanne
--
Just to clarify: mensural notation as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation
Stuart
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