It is only in French sources that they put in dots at all. They are not
used in Italian sources.
The idea seems to be prevalent that they included open courses rather
indiscriminately but I don't think this is so. The sources which mention
that you should include the open courses - Colonna, Foscarini, Pesori are
referring
to the standard alfabeto chords.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Durbrow" <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp>
To: "vl" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:30 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: 5 course guitar - partial strums
I am curious if there is an answer to your question. Tangentally, I have a
theory that so many strummed chords didn't include the 5th course, that
they didn't even bother to put a dot there if it would make a dissonance,
they just assumed you wouldn't include it in the strum.
On May 31, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Various 5 course guitar tablature sources ask for partial strums in
which only some of the courses are to be strummed; unstrummed
courses being indicated by dots (although the practice may, of course,
be more widespread than suggested only by the tablatures with these
dots).
A typical example is a G major chord (stopped on the 2nd and 5th
courses) but with a dot on the first course indicating a strum of the
lower 4 courses but without the first course strummed (eg Lobkowicz Ms
OLIM Prague II Ms Kk77 fol 82v - Minuet). Is there any evidence that
these were ever performed by using, say, the middle finger of the right
hand (or even a spare left hand finger) to damp the unplayed course or
is it simply a matter of precision in execution of the strum with the
index finger?
MH
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