Hello David and James,

You might be interested to know that some Weiss sonatas and Bach suites
are available in staff notation on eBay. I ordered the sonata no. IV in
G. You also can check www.savageclassical.com. Richard Sayage arranges
them. They are set up for standard six-string classical guitar and also
an arrangement for drop D is included. I would tune the 8th string to
F# for anything in G.

I also have a sonata in G written in both grand staff notation as well
as explict 11-string tab in case anyone is interested to explore
something that is not too hard. I use TablEdit for this and for my
other compositions for six-course mandolino as well as for six-course
lute and requinto. It is not too expensive. I think I paid around $55.

In addition to this group and the 10-string guitar group, I also belong
to renaissance and baroque lute lists in English, Italian and French
languages, as well as the Frettedfriends group. I also belong to the
clasical guitar group although I rarely play a standard six-stringed
classical guitar any more.

James, I enjoyed your article "More than Six." You may want to use
TablEdit to do your transcriptions for you. All you do is enter the tab
and the program produces the staff notation automatically. You can
export a MIDI file or a PDF. I use it when I want to learn six-course
renaissance lute music. It is very convenient to have both tab and
staff when learning a new piece.

David, your 13-string alto guitar sounds very cool and wonderful. If I
did not have a 13c baroque lute I would get a 13-string guitar. I
recommend that you learn how to read tab. I used to hate it until I
studied it. Now it seems not too bad. It is all a matter of exposure
and practice. Anyway, it is very easy to transcribe compositions when
composing using a tab program.

If anyone is in the San Diego, CA area this summer, I will perform
three concerts 29 July, 5 Aug. and 12 Aug. Email me if you are coming
and I will send you complete details. The concert series is free,
sponsored by House of Italy in San Diego. CDs will be on sale then and
also now, in case you want to hear me. I won't have alto guitar until
my next one, so stay tuned.

All the best,
Marion

--- J R Smith <vector10@...> wrote:

> 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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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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