Prelude BWV1006a - two versions

[Richard Yates]

Keep in mind that this is an experiment, not a finished product. Overall, I
think it works pretty well by comparison with E Major. If you play through
it, remember that, because of familiarity with the E Major version, some
of it might feel foreign at first.

D major version (9 pages):

http://www.yatesguitar.com/bach/Prelude-1006a-Dmajor.pdf

D major staff plus an E major staff below it for comparison:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/bach/Prelude-1006a-TwoKeys.pdf

This edition of the Bach Prelude to Lute Suite No. 4 is experimental in
several ways. The original key was E major. Nearly all guitar
transcriptions are in that key rather than in D major as I am presenting
here. D major has the advantage that the scale includes more open strings,
especially in the sections that modulate to other keys. In E major these
sections more often require full barr� fingering for arpeggios and have
fewer open strings with which to smoothly shift positions up and down the
neck in scale passages.

Overall, D major allows a fuller resonance through sympathetic vibration of
non-plucked strings that is especially suitable both for the texture of a
Baroque prelude, and for an imitation of the Baroque lute with its open D
minor tuning.

Fingering has been selected with two priorities: 1) efficiency of movement
and, 2) resonance of sound. To this end, wherever practical, lines that
outline chords have been assigned across several strings rather than along
one string. It is not always possible to completely reconcile these two
priorities.

To contrast scale movement with arpeggios, an unusually large number of
slurs have been marked. They are there to indicate the places that slurs
are possible given the fingering rather than as a suggestion that they all
be played.

Also not usually seen in other editions is the separation, through the
notation, of embedded voices shown as a single line in the original. While
this may clarify the texture it has the risk of complicating the appearance
of the score.

[Charlie]

hey Richard, what a novel idea. I haven't got me head around it yet, but
will check it out.

My freakin' word, somethin actually on topic

Charlie

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[JMF]

Richard Yates wrote:
> Keep in mind that this is an experiment, not a finished product.
> Overall, I think it works pretty well by comparison with E Major.

(1) Looks great, looking forward to trying it out
(2) Finale question, assuming you used Finale: I notice that you manage
to get the fingering numbers to have a "filled background", so that when
the numbers are superimposed over the staff lines (which is often) they
"white out" the staff lines around the number so that you can read the
number easily -- which is not the case if you don't have that "whited
out background". How do you achieve that? I ask because it doesn't seem
that Finale does that by default.

Thanks,

John

[Robert Harding]

Thanks for posting. What notation software did you use? - Robert

[Richard Yates]

Robert Harding wrote:
> Thanks for posting. What notation software did you use? - Robert

Finale 2007c.

[Richard Yates]

Hi, John. The fingering numbers are articulations that were made in the
Shape Designer. First make a box, set it to fill with white, set the
outline to zero line width. Then make the fingering symbol, move it to
'front' and place it on the box. Select All, Group, and you're done. It can
take some fiddling to get the size of the box right, but when you have one
you can duplicate the articlation to make the other numbers. Circled string
numbers use the same process with a circle (line thickness of 2.7 EVPUs and
no fill). My fingering numbers and string numbers are Times New Roman 10
point.

[anon]

bar 114, first quaver. Should be A?

[Richard Yates]

anon wrote:
> bar 114, first quaver. Should be A?

Yes. Thanks.

[JMF]

Many thanks, Richard. I'll try it out!

And by the way, I meant (1) seriously, too -- I've had plenty of issues
with the E major 1006a and am extremely interested in seeing what the D
major version brings to the table ...

John

[leyenda]

On Nov 19, 3:59 pm, "Richard Yates" <rich...@yatesguitar.com> wrote:
> Keep in mind that this is an experiment, not a finished product. Overall, I
> think it works pretty well by comparison with E Major. If you play through
> it, remember that, because of familiarity with the E Major version,  some
> of it might feel foreign at first.
>
> D major version (9 pages):
>
> http://www.yatesguitar.com/bach/Prelude-1006a-Dmajor.pdf
>
> D major staff plus an E major staff below it for comparison:
>
> http://www.yatesguitar.com/bach/Prelude-1006a-TwoKeys.pdf

Hello,

I have done a D major version for Altoguitar:

http://www.guitar168.com/Composers/Bach/Altoguitar/1006/Prelude.pdf

Furthermore, I have new versions of the complete BWV 995-1012 for
Altoguitar:

http://www.guitar168.com/Bach.htm

Leyenda

[Richard Yates]

Or download the articulations from:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/GuitarArts-smallset.LIB

and "load library" from the 'File' menu in Finale. (I don't know if there
are version compatibility issues with libraries, though. Try it.)

> And by the way, I meant (1) seriously, too -- I've had plenty of
> issues with the E major 1006a and am extremely interested in seeing
> what the D major version brings to the table ...

Great. I am still making adjustments to it and welcome any construictive
feedback or suggestions.

[Richard Yates]

Wow! I bet there is some serious resonance with 11 strings! I wish I could
hear it.