Lute music from tablature--guitar music from staff (was Re: Site Reading vs Tab)

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:00:02 -0400
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:27:35 -0500, Jenzi C Silverman
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>am I too late for this? I AM trying to learn tabLATURE, so I can play my
>11ch Brazillian lute and make Robert happy by playing some Weiss as it
>was meant to be played...
>
>gms--
>
Funny you should pop up with that. I was just down in my "cave"
ruminating of that very subject.....Weiss and tablature that is.
Herein are Lutester's rules for the enjoyment of life in a mixed
(lute-guitar) society:
If you are going to play 6 or 7 ch renaissance lute (and vihuela)
music on the guitar you should adopt the tuning of the lute and play
from the tablature. Why? Because 1) it is much easier than dealing
with someone else's transcriptions and 2) one day you might wish to
actually play a renaissance lute and you will be able to do so.
If, on the other hand, you are going to play 11 or 13 ch baroque lute
music on the guitar you should find a "good" transcription and not be
afraid of altering the inevitable craziness in fingering and voicing
that usually accompanies such a transcription. That minor chord
tuning makes faithful (read faithful) renditions on the standard
guitar problematic.
A couple of cases in point. At
http://www.tabulatura.de/Pdffiles/BGII_13_Prelude.pdf you'll find a
transcription of the famous dmin prelude by Weiss from baroque lute
tablature to guitar tablature. If you've ever heard it on the lute,
you'll see that the guitar transcription is nowhere near a faithful
rendition of the original.
On the other hand there is a really nice transcription of
Lauffensteiner's "Menuette" at:
http://www.tabulatura.de/Pdffiles/BGII_11_Menuett.pdf. This one would
make a nice piece for anyone interested in playing some of the
baroque literature on the guitar. It does take some monkeying around
though.
Actually the whole bunch of pieces at
http://www.tabulatura.de/guitartabm.html would be good practice for
guitarists interested in trying their hand at reading guitar tablature
versions of baroque lute pieces.....there are a few baroque guitar
pieces in there also.
Take a look and enjoy! Some may work for you.
Robert Crim
..........there are midis too, but the tempos are off