Actually I think you have made a rather good job of it - especially the
really awkward chord at the beginning of the last stave which comes out of
the blue. I have to pause there and think about where to put my fingers.
And I only put it out last night! The slightly odd harmonic shifts seem to
be for real.
I think his music doesn't always lie on the fingerboard in a very convenient
way - possibly because he was a lutenist rather than a guitarist and perhaps
because the pieces were originally for lute and he was not a particularly
skilled arranger.
Corbetta's music is very difficult to play but it always seems to be
completely logical in the way it moves about the fingerboard.
Keep trying - there are two more movements.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>; "Vihuelalist"
<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:45 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Foscarini
Monica Hall wrote:
I have just added 3 more pieces to my Foscarini opus on my
[1]www.earlyguitar.ning.com
site - the ones in E major on p.117. They are right at the end. For
the time being I will put all new pieces at the end rather than stick
to page order of the book to save time.
Quite strange - even for him? I looked at the Prelude and the harmonies
and immediately wondered if a low fifth would be in order. So I bunged on
one. Not so sure.
Anyway - here's a go at the prelude - can't really make sense of it.Maybe
somebody else will have a crack at it!
http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/FoscoEprel.mp3
Stuart
I wonder if there are any twitchers on this list (Stuart perhaps
No - but have many other failings
). I
was thrilled to see a whole flock of redwing on a tree in my back
garden this morning and can't resist the urge to tell the world.
I live in the least desirable part of the London Borough of Islington
where things like that never happen.
Monica
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