Vallet and Tempo

2004-08-02 Thread Ken Brodkey
Hello Everyone, I'm working on some Vallet preludes (CNRS edition) and I'm quite undecided on the tempo to play number 11. I'm liking it at both m.m quarter note = 80 and also at 92. Suggestions please! Thanks. Ken Brodkey Luthier

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Re: Sixth Comma Meantone

2004-08-02 Thread Candace Magner
s.walsh asked about the computer program called Tune!It (or any other, I assume): > > How do you use the program to tune your Baroque guitar? > > Do you take one string - maybe the first or fifth? and go up fret by fret with the program, shifting the frets around? > I tune each of the strings indi

Re: Re: Sixth Comma Meantone

2004-08-02 Thread s.walsh
> > I have been using a very nifty computer program called Tune!It. Go to > http://www.zeta.org.au/~dvolkmer/tuneit.html to learn about the program. I > also keep it on my small laptop which I carry when travelling. Alas, it is > not really a stand-alone box but it has every imaginable tuning. I

Re: Theorbo arpeggio patterns

2004-08-02 Thread Tom Leoni
Richard and Howard - thank you for the copious amount of information you have dug up for this debate. I am glad I asked the question. What it essentially boils down to is this. In a 4-note chord pattern, Kapsberger did not use his ring-finger, as he himself seems to point out. So, if the chor

Re: Theorbo arpeggio patterns

2004-08-02 Thread Richard Yates
> Sorry for ruining your argument with mere empiricism, but I'm looking at the > facsimile of Toccata Prima as I write. Every chord with a arpeggio symbol > has exactly four notes. You must be looking in a different place. In Libro Quarto, 1640, Toccata Prima begins in the middle of page 6. The s

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2004-08-02 Thread Roman Turovsky
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Re: Theorbo arpeggio patterns PS

2004-08-02 Thread ConoS
Piccinini essentially gives the same instructions as Kapsberger does in his Book 3 (3, 4, 5, & 6 note chords) but always ends on the highest note even if the arpeggio is not strictly ascending.. But he also has a sign for a different arpeggio pattern. For a 4 note arpeggio pattern he puts the n

Re: Theorbo arpeggio patterns

2004-08-02 Thread ConoS
In a message dated 8/1/04 10:28:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Sorry for ruining your argument with mere empiricism, but I'm looking at the facsimile of Toccata Prima as I write. Every chord with a arpeggio symbol has exactly four notes. Four shalt thou play, and the number of the countin