Didn't get Stuart's message.
But most 5-course music isn't suitable for classical guitar because of the
octave stringing and re-entrant tuning - at least as notated.
4-course guitar music doesn't actually give any information about right-hand
technique at all. However, the 4-part chords may well have been strummed
in some instances. It's just that the printer didn't have any means of
showing this, or didn't think it necessary - it's up to the player.
Any form of notation is very limited in what it can convey.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: 4c music... is there any?!
At 02:45 PM 4/8/2008, Stuart Walsh wrote:
Lots of music was published for for the five-course guitar. There is a
fair amount online too. Wouldn't a five-course be more promising than a
four-course guitar?
Bear in mind that the little four-course guitar is very unlike a modern
classical guitar.
Of course here, in large part, you're discussing renaissance- vs.
baroque-era music for guitar, which can also be quite different from each
other both stylistically and technically, in some ways as different as the
modern guitar. A fantasia by Mudarra doesn't necessarily bear much
resemblance to a Fandango by de Murcia. As far as I know, all the
renaissance-era sources for 4-course guitar are notated as strictly
punteado. 5-course music of the baroque era often incorporates a good
deal
of rasgueado.
Best,
Eugene
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