Two dances in fact.
I know of no specific named players but considering the popularity of the
instrument in London at the time there'd probably quite a choice. Peter Holman
thinks the guitar was used throughout the opera in almost all the pieces
including the Lament where he asked me to
Peter Holman was criticised for doing this in some of reviews - who referred to
silly strummers.
Although the guitar was popular - this was probably amongst amateurs as a solo
instrument or as an accompaniment to the voice.
It would be interesting to know what evidence Peter has for using the
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:34:47 -, bill kilpatrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i know this ain't the place for jazzy little numbers but i posted a
tune to youtube just now and i'd be interested to hear any and all
opinion:
Nice one Bill
Bob
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Well, there you go. The pieces are new to me. Very often it is the tempo
that settles last with me. I often experiment. Never heard anyone else play
these pieces. The passacaille is beautiful. I'll keep working on it.
Thanks anyway, Eugene.
Rob
www.rmguitar.info
-Original Message-
If anyone is still interested, the correspondence between Peter Holman and
Anthony Hicks was in Early Music Review vols 48 49 - Feb./March 1999.
Among other things, Anthony points out that the references to guitars in
Calisto and Dido imply that they were unaccompanied apart from castenets.
On 1/18/2008, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In things like the Cavalieri the singer probably accompanied himself on
stage, rather than the guitar being part of the continuo group.
I suppose the on-stage playing was most often played by the continuo
group. There are several examples
Bill,
I always enjoy your postings, but I like this even better than the Frost songs.
Jocelyn
From: bill kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 1/18/2008 9:34 AM
To: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [VIHUELA] jazzy little number
i know this ain't the
Related to this: are you aware if any lists of players at the 17thC/early 18thC
Italian Opera Houses listing theorbos, harpsichords players also showing
guitarists.?
Martyn
The theorbist can also play the guitar. Normally not at the same time...
True... but that doesn't prove that the
i know this ain't the place for jazzy little numbers but i posted a tune to
youtube just now and i'd be interested to hear any and all opinion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpHCwxsWhFc
waiting for the morning papers at sardi's (nyc allusion) - bill
