Dear Stuart, Well, I have Kristian Buhl-Mortensen's recent CD of these suites and very tasteful they are too. But I'm a wee bit bothered that the balance between guitar, bass viol and hapsichord is only possible through the wizardry of modern recording technology! In practice I can't quite see that the guitar could compete with these other instruments as heard on the recording.
I always thought the pieces would be mostly played on two guitars. And. indeed, I've just dug out the MSs which have these suites and most have second parts for a guitar. There is, exceptionally,one suite which calls for a harpsichord ( staff notation in F4 clef marked 'Basso. Cembalo' - no figureing) in Ny Kgl. Saml. 110 (Book 2a) but the very fact that this is so exceptional throws doubt that the others maked for two guitars would have been performed with hapsichord and other instruments in a concerted asrrangement. And also note that this suite also has a writtten out part for a second guitar (like the other suites) marked 'No 2 Accompagnement de la Guitarre D moll/par Diesel' . The hand of the staff notation bass also doesn't look the same as that generally in the MS - maybe a later addition. I would like to see, or rather hear, what auditors on the spot actually hear, rather than what a sound engineer (perhaps also with the agreement of the flattered artist) thinks I ought to hear.... But this seems a common problem with many recordings these days so I'm not particularly singling out this one and generally I like Buhl-Mortensen's stylish and tasteful playing. regards, Martyn PS re your actaul query: I think bourdons on both bass courses for these works - but I've also speculated that for such works they were possibly placed on the outside (ie struck by the thumb first) as with the contemporary mandora .............. The disposition of the parts looks very similar. M --- On Mon, 16/7/12, WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: From: WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Schickhardt and Fibiger arrangements posted To: "Rockford Mjos" <rm...@comcast.net> Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 16 July, 2012, 11:10 Very interesting. I suppose the guitar most probably would have low fourths and fifth courses for this music? Stuart On 16 July 2012 04:24, Rockford Mjos <[1][1]rm...@comcast.net> wrote: I have long enjoyed Kristian Buhl-Mortensen's recording of early music connected to Denmark, so was very pleased to come across this generous posting of music for 5-course guitar: [2][2]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html The music (in modern notation, not tab) includes music for guitar and continuo, as well as guitar duets. I also found his introduction of music from Frederik IV very interesting. Be sure to scroll up to see all the images in the Danish version. [3][3]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/fibiger.html#English -- R To get on or off this list see list information at [4][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[5]rm...@comcast.net 2. [6]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html 3. [7]http://buhl-mortensen.dk/fibiger.html#English 4. [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://us.mc817.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rm...@comcast.net 2. http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html 3. http://buhl-mortensen.dk/fibiger.html#English 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. http://us.mc817.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rm...@comcast.net 6. http://buhl-mortensen.dk/musik.html 7. http://buhl-mortensen.dk/fibiger.html#English 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html