To be pedantic, the Ms with dots I mentioned (a Lobkowicz Ms - OLIM
Prague II Ms Kk77) is probably Austrian or Bohemian in origin. In fact
the title page of the first part has ' Pieces Composee Par le Comte
Logis' - though perhaps arrangements (if that) rather than original
guitar compositions by Losy.
Martyn
--- On Fri, 1/6/12, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: 5 course guitar - partial strums
To: "Ed Durbrow" <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Friday, 1 June, 2012, 17:01
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" <[1]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp>
To: "vl" <[2]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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References
1. http://us.mc817.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to%c3%adurb...@sea.plala.or.jp
2. http://us.mc817.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
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