Passacaglia by Ludivico Roncalli for Baroque Guitar

[kipthecourtjester]

May I please ask your tuning? Thank you! Wonderful job!

[kidneykutter]

@kipthecourtjester Same as the top 5 strings of a classical guitar: e b g d a

[Pithecanthropus2483]

I truly enjoyed your performance, and since I have been working on the same tune was able to pick up some pointers, hope you dont mind! I like the way you arrange the short scalar runs to be played on different strings rather than on the same one or two adjacent courses. I've followed suit in my own rendition. It helps remind us that the guitar is a polyphonic insturment.

How can I buy a guitar in the 17th century?

[LutenistDeMari]

For lute and early guitar players, the music is usually written in tablature - meaning the fingering is in the tablature. We tend not to re-finger things, taking as principal that the fingering written by the composer was chosen for a good reason. Except in Bach of course, who just wrote anything and left it for the player to work out how to do it!

[Pithecanthropus2483]

I didn't know this. I thought tab tells you where you need to put fingers, but not usually which fingers to use. I for one find standard notation easier to work with, as long as there are at least a few fingering markings.

kidneykutter, would you mind telling us what edition you worked from?

[cajasa08]

Very nice performance, congratulations and greetings since Spain.

[haimcito]

as usually, it is a gift to hear you playng, wonderful. thanks.

[billkilpatrick]

well played - just had to hear it twice. gad' - what a gorgeous instrument!

[kidneykutter]

Thanks very much. Yes indeed, Barber and Harris do a great job and I really love the guitar.