From: Daniel Winheld <dwinh...@comcast.net> To: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> Cc: Lutelist LUTELIST <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 7:10 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Buzzing [was "Gut strings"] Hi-I often practice this technique--playing only the 6th course fundamental with the index finger. Then you can have the best of both worlds.
--Sterling Seriously, in Weiss I have encountered situations where the part writing is destroyed (to my ears) by the 6th course octave string going above a low lying treble line. And in some cases that 6th course note is a middle voice, making it all the more difficult to play only the fundamental and not the octave. When I need the sound of a 6th course octave, I can often refinger the note on the 7th course. Dan On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:59 PM, howard posner wrote: > Daniel Winheld wrote, rather virtuosically: > >> Howard, you of all people should know that ignorance of the law is no excuse! But I did exaggerate. 6th course unison on a Baroque lute is only an equipment violation. Officer Ed Martin of the LSAPD pulled me over a few years and issued me a fix-it ticket. I have never gotten a speeding ticket except on the Renaissance lute, where I've been known to put the pedal to the medal occasionally. Don't even mention PUI violations! >> >> It's obvious that Jakob was deliberately skirting the letter of the law & subverting the mores of polite society by having a glamorous & famous female "Octave Incubater" in his employ, a dubious practice most often connected to the decadent European elite. >> >> Or he is just an incredibly dedicated & resourceful musician. What do I know? > > More than me. I don't even recall which music Jakob thought required a unison 6th course and which required the octaves. I think the program was all French, which would explain my ignorance/lack of memory. Maybe he used the unisons for Berlioz, Gounod and Debussy. But doesn't Boulez need octaves? > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
