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From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: 3 short pieces from the Ulm MS for mandore
On 08/01/2012 12:48, Monica Hall wrote:
The Scottish, Skene mandore MS is more well known but the Ulm MS of
French mandore music (of the same time) is very good too. And the pieces
are much more carefully notated.
Here are a couple of courantes and a gavotte - played on a very small
guitar with a string length of 37 cms. Perhaps there were at least two
sizes of mandore: the really tiny (c. 30cm string length), four-course
mandore (some Ulm stuff, Chancy) , played with a plectrum and a slightly
larger, five course instrument ((Skene, Ulm, Gallot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnC0b9w8QyU
Stuart
Very nice but what is mandore tuning in this context?
Thanks. I don't know what you mean 'context'? I think the tuning of the
mandore at the time of its popularity was more or less fixed... apart from
the first course. So a four-course mandore was 5-4-5 (e.g.: g-d-g-d) and a
five-course instrument was 4-5-4-5 (e.g.: d-g-d-g-d). Of course the actual
pitch might be different. But on either four- or five-course instruments
the top course could be re-tuned: e.g. a tone lower. But the bottom
courses were not re-tuned.
So the mandore tuning is quite different from the mandolino tuning in
fourths (but not that that difference makes it a different instrument).
and different from the guitar (and incidentally lute) which almost always
has a 3rd somewhere in the series. I wonder if this is because instruments
play more chords and counterpoint rather than simple melodic things.
Monica
Stuart
Monica
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