Hello David,
In response to your request for music suitable for the alt guitar in
mensural notation, I have hand-written arrangements of eight or nine
pieces, predominantly, late 16th. / 17th. century, suitable for the
11s alt guitar in standard G-tuning. They are mostly about a page
long, though the arrangement of Bach's ,"Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring"
covers three pages. I assume, of course, that you are using your alt
guitar as a transposing instrument, i.e., find the frets as for a
standard tenor in E. If you would like copies, contact me with your
home address at: <vector10@...> . There is no charge. I am
sorry to offer these as hand-written pieces, but my progress with G7,
the guitar / lute subset of "Sibelius", is making very little headway
due to competition with my other interests. If you wish to improve
sight-reading of renaissance tablature, if you look at group message
166, you will see that I mention a publication of some of de Visee's
works for theorbo nominally arranged for the arch-lute. However, the
tuning of the "arch-lute" is precisely that for alt guitar, i.e., the
third course is at B-flat rather than A. It is a straightforward
matter to transcribe these into standard notation. I will probably
get around to this sometime this year.
I am also a member of the 10s guitar group,Cathedral Guitar. com,
where you can find my article on multi-string guitars, "More than
Six, ...", and Janet Marlow's " International Ten String Guitar
Society".
Cheers,
James.
On 20 Mar 2006, at 01:56, daethicist wrote:

> Hello Christoffer,
> I'm a guitarist living in California. I have two instruments: an 11-
> string alto
> guitar by Bolin (similar to the one played by Goran Sollscher), and
> a 13-string
> alto guitar that was built for me by Roger Stromberg in Sweden. I play
> baroque and Rennaisance lute music. I especially love the music of
> Weiss, for
> which the 13-string instrument is ideal. I would very much like to
> find more lute
> music in staff notation, as I am not as good yet at reading lute
> tablature. Do
> you or others have some good ideas for where I could find more
> music? I
> know Sollscher has arranged lots of music for his 11-string, but I
> don't know if
> he has published it anywhere. Thanks for creating this group
> David A.
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