[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-18 Thread Stuart Walsh
Monica Hall wrote: Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella! Thanks for saying it's an interesting topic! There is a lot more (oh no!) ...with pictures wherever too. Well - I couldn't find any more. I meant that there is a lot more - but I

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-18 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella! I meant that there is a lot more - but I haven't posted it yet! I've now put dates on the entries and I will indicate changes to earlier posts by writing in red. All the tunings you give below

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-18 Thread Stuart Walsh
Mjos Larson wrote: I also think of scordatura less as playing in another key (although that may well be in a composer's mind given the idea of keys and emotions: see http://www.library.yale.edu/~mkoth/keychar.htm http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Emkoth/keychar.htm for example), but that it

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-17 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella! Thanks for saying it's an interesting topic! There is a lot more (oh no!) ...with pictures wherever too. Well - I couldn't find any more. The nice thing about the Internet is that it would be quite

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-17 Thread Martyn Hodgson
often wish the others hadn't bothered. Was it: lute envy, showing off or simply 'doodling' do you think? Martyn --- On Sun, 17/8/08, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-17 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella! The thing that slightly puzzles me about these guitar variant tunings is why some (not all of course) were bothered with. Some chords (usually the tonic) are, of course, made easier but others in the same piece

[VIHUELA] Re: alternative tunings for Baroque guitar - and campanella!

2008-08-17 Thread Mjos Larson
I also think of scordatura less as playing in another key (although that may well be in a composer's mind given the idea of keys and emotions: see http://www.library.yale.edu/~mkoth/keychar.htm for example), but that it creates interesting and different sonorities, interval possibilities, and