Dear Stuart,
Well, I have Kristian Buhl-Mortensen's recent CD of these suites and
very tasteful they are too. But I'm a wee bit bothered that the balance
between guitar, bass viol and hapsichord is only possible through the
wizardry of modern recording technology! In practice I can't quite see
that the guitar could compete with these other instruments as heard on
the recording.
I always thought the pieces would be mostly played on two guitars. And.
indeed, I've just dug out the MSs which have these suites and most have
second parts for a guitar. There is, exceptionally,one suite which
calls for a harpsichord ( staff notation in F4 clef marked 'Basso.
Cembalo' - no figureing) in Ny Kgl. Saml. 110 (Book 2a) but the very
fact that this is so exceptional throws doubt that the others maked for
two guitars would have been performed with hapsichord and other
instruments in a concerted asrrangement. And also note that this suite
also has a writtten out part for a second guitar (like the other
suites) marked 'No 2 Accompagnement de la Guitarre D moll/par Diesel' .
The hand of the staff notation bass also doesn't look the same as that
generally in the MS - maybe a later addition.
I would like to see, or rather hear, what auditors on the spot actually
hear, rather than what a sound engineer (perhaps also with the
agreement of the flattered artist) thinks I ought to hear.... But this
seems a common problem with many recordings these days so I'm not
particularly singling out this one and generally I like
Buhl-Mortensen's stylish and tasteful playing.
regards,
Martyn
PS re your actaul query: I think bourdons on both bass courses for
these works - but I've also speculated that for such works they were
possibly placed on the outside (ie struck by the thumb first) as with
the contemporary mandora .............. The disposition of the parts
looks very similar. M
--- On Mon, 16/7/12, WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
From: WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Schickhardt and Fibiger arrangements posted
To: "Rockford Mjos" <rm...@comcast.net>
Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Monday, 16 July, 2012, 11:10
Very interesting.
I suppose the guitar most probably would have low fourths and fifth
courses for this music?
Stuart
On 16 July 2012 04:24, Rockford Mjos <[1][1]rm...@comcast.net>
wrote:
I have long enjoyed Kristian Buhl-Mortensen's recording of early
music connected to Denmark, so was very pleased to come across
this
generous posting of music for 5-course guitar:
[2][2]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html
The music (in modern notation, not tab) includes music for guitar
and continuo, as well as guitar duets.
I also found his introduction of music from Frederik IV very
interesting. Be sure to scroll up to see all the images in the
Danish version.
[3][3]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/fibiger.html#English
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