Sorry about that - didn't copy right...
Monica
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From: [1]Waling Tiersma
To: [2]Monica Hall
Cc: [3]Lex Eisenhardt ; [4]Vihuelalist
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Bach Chaconne
Hi Monica,
Some characters were missing from the YouTube URL.
This was the one I
presume: [5]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueSE1N_Qwks
Waling
2011/10/19 Monica Hall <[6]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Just by the way, don't want to revive the controversy - but in one
of his recent messages Lex said...
The fact that the music transcends the scope of re-entrant tuning
doesn't say that that tuning is inferior. We just should accept that
it is not capable of rendering everything in music. Not Bach's
Chaconne, for example...
Well - it is.... Dominic Robillard has arranged it for what he
calls the "Roman tuning" and can be heard playing it on You Tube
[7]www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue
or just put in Bach Chaconne baroque guitar.
It works very well - sounds much better than it does on the
classical guitar (or even the lute for that matter). The violin is
very limited in what it can do and the point about the piece is that
it takes the instrument to the limits of what it can do. The
baroque guitar with a re-entrant tuning is much closer to the violin
in the way that it is tuned than the classical guitar and has a more
abrasive timbre which is similar to the violin.......Less is more.
Yours truly
Monica
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