I think it is generally accepted that fret positions that would call for glued frets on the belly are conceptual. Meaning, if there was a fret there, it would be an o.
Molinaro's music is rich in rapid passage work but the real difficulty lies in managing the counterpoint. He was an organist and some of his lute tablature transcribed into keyboard notation could sound very well on an organ. I think he just worked out his lute arrangements to the fullest and expected that the player would aim for that ideal or modify as necessary. RA __________________________________________________________________ From: lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu <lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> on behalf of Sean Smith <lutesm...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 5:32 PM To: lute <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Molinaro 12 Are we assuming belly frets up there? s On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:27 AM Christopher Stetson <[1]christophertstet...@gmail.com> wrote: ...or had large hands. Actually, though, I don't find them more technically difficult than many of the chanson intabulations of earlier publications. On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 1:12 PM Tristan von Neumann <[1][2]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote: But seriously, how do you play (pardon my French) o k i ?? Molinaro must have played a small lute... On 15.03.20 17:59, Sean Smith wrote: > I foolishly mentioned that to him once. In his defense he pointed out > it was his first recording nearly 30 years ago. I'm still pretty > impressed with it. > And then there's his Terzi cd that is top notch. > Sean > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 11:22 AM Jurgen Frenz > <[1][2][3]eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > what about asking him? > Some fool (for our free of charge pleasure) uploaded a CD of > Molinaro pieces played by Paul Beier (do you happen to know him?). > Mea culpa I downloaded it - but I believe I can hear how he was > struggling with the playing technique. > Best > JÃÃà ¼rgen > à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢ Original Message à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢à ¢ > On Sunday, March 15, 2020 3:38 PM, Tristan von Neumann > <[2][3][4]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote: > > But No. 12 is certainly one of the most difficult pieces of the > entire > > literature. > > I guess even Paul O'Dette struggled a lot with it. > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3][4][5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[5][6]eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com > 2. mailto:[6][7]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de > 3. [7][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:[9]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 2. mailto:[10]eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 3. mailto:[11]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 4. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. mailto:[13]eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 6. mailto:[14]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 7. [15]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [1]mailto:christophertstet...@gmail.com 2. [2]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 3. [3]mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 4. [4]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 5. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. [6]mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 7. [7]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 8. [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. [9]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 10. [10]mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 11. [11]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 12. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 13. [13]mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 14. [14]mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 15. [15]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Virus-free. [16]www.avast.com -- References Visible links: 1. mailto:christophertstet...@gmail.com 2. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 3. mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 4. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 7. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 10. mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 11. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 13. mailto:eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com 14. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 15. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 16. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link Hidden links: 18. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon 19. file://localhost/net/ifs-users/lute-arc/L3116310-6504TMP.html#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2