The other question is about the music on p.7. I'm assuming that
both
parts are supposed to be played on a single instrument. If so the
notes on the lower stave will occasionally overlap with those on the
upper stave. Are we supposed to read the lower stave an octave
lower?
This looks exactly like a song arranged for TWO instruments - two English
guitars (guittars) or equivalents And at the same pitch). The music for
these later instruments with extra basses around 1800, or the music I've
seen, is very simple and uses some of the simplest music originally
arranged for the English guitar, now out of fashion.
This just prompts me to ask one other question. I have just been watching
the DVD of the drama series about Charles II which was on TV a few years
ago. In one scene where he is having a row with Lady Castelmaine in the
background there is one of these "lyre-guitars" i.e. it looks like a lyre
but has a guitar fingerboard if you know what I mean.
I was under the impression that these became fashionable much later. Is
there any evidence that such instruments were in use at the Restoration
Court - or is it just a figment of the producer's imagination? I think
someone asked this question before but can't remember the answer.
Monica
Hope I have made myself clear.
Monica
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