Hi Stuart, I don't have anything enlightening to say about the publication, but I wanted to thank you for posting this; I enjoyed the music!
Best, Jocelyn On 4/7/2011 3:36 PM, "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >Granata's Novi Capricci Armonici Musicali in vari toni per la chitarra >spagnola, violino and viola concertati et altra sonate per chitarra sola >1674 has pieces for solo guitar and, at the beginning, 12 pieces with a >guitar part on the left hand side and then in staff notation (treble and >lightly figured bass) on the right. > >This publication has been discussed before but , as usual, I can't >remember the details and don't want to plumb the archives. Gary Boyes > >http://www.library.appstate.edu/music/guitar/1674granata.html > >says that these pieces are for violin, guitar and continuo. I think last >time the work was discussed somebody said that it might be like some >lute trios where there is a lot of doubling (e.g. Hinterleithner and >later in the 18th century, Martino and others). > >But I think it was Monica who thought that these pieces are(or might be) >for violin and continuo, and alternatively playable as guitar solos. >Anyway, I always thought it would be interesting to hear the guitar part >with the bass line. So I've had a shot at one of the pieces, the >Alemanda in E minor on page 20 which is quite attractive as a solo. I'm >not sure how fast this piece is to go and I'm taking it fairly slowly. >That leaves bar 8, the concluding bar of the first section, with one >chord for the duration of the whole bar (or almost). That's a lot of >space/time with nothing happening. Often in Allemandas, there are some >arpeggio twiddles for the first two beats and then a strummed chord. >(Most, but not all, of the later solo alemandas in this publication are >treated in this way.) > >http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Granata.mp3 > >So this is for guitar and a lute playing the bass line. I didn't try and >do continuo because I don't know enough about it and, anyway, the guitar >is covering the main harmony. The bass does double the guitar quite a >bit (but there is often a lot of doubling in the Baroque guitar duets >I've seen). I think it's quite a strange sound. The second bar of the >second section sounds weird. The clash in the repeat of the second >section, towards the end is just my mistake. > >Stuart > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
