I think he means a fully re-entrant tuning although I thought I
detected a high octave string on the third course in one place.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: [1]Martyn Hodgson
To: [2]Monica Hall
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Bach Chaconne
What do you think he means by 'Roman' tuning?
MH
--- On Wed, 19/10/11, Monica Hall <[3]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Monica Hall <[4]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Bach Chaconne
To: "Lex Eisenhardt" <[5]eisenha...@planet.nl>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <[6]vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 15:57
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
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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