----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.guitar Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:12 PM Subject: Bach Toccata & Fugue BWV 565
> No one has mentioned this yet, at least as far as I can see. Anyway in > the Winter 2005 edition of The Musical Times there is an academic paper > by one Eric Lewin Altschuler that suggests that the famous Toccata and > Fugue BWV 565 (yes, that Toccata and Fugue!) and the Ciaccona from BWV1004 > (yes, that chaconne!) were originally written for lute !!!!!! > > Not enough time to go into details so you'll have to nip down to your > local university library and have a look for yourself. > > http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0504/index.html > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html