Dear Eugene,
I also find Strizich more complicated than necessary and really only
useful for academics interested in the period guitar who don't actually
play the instrument - are there any?
And I agree with what you're saying below: ie to transcribe the
tablature into staff
First of all - don't you think that some academics at least ought to be
interested in the 5-course guitar repertoire? Frankly I think they should
be and indeed some of them are. After all it has some bearing on other
aspects of 17th century music e.g. music for lute and keyboard and
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: de Visee Chaconne in a minor to the
guitar?
To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thursday, 22 November, 2012, 15:17
Dear Monica,
I think you've misunderstood my point about fellow
I should clarify that the straight-to-A transcriptions work best for me in
music that is most workable in that tuning. I find it pretty satisfactory for
de Visee, Guerau, etc. Ironically, the one perhaps most poorly served by
non-reentrant notation, Sanz, is perhaps the most commonly abused
I don't think those of us who play the baroque guitar need staff notation
versions at all to play from although I sometimes make them for myself to
refer to so that I can see the underlying harmony or counterpoint more
clearly. I can't therefore see any point in making transcriptions with
