Arpeggi Jumping One String

What are Open String Chords? · Arpeggi Jumping One String · Summing Up the Use · Why Burl Ives Didn't Give Chords for All Keys

If your chord jumps one string, it is five strings wide, and only one, lowermost or uppermost E, is outside.

This means only two versions, higher and lower, are possible.

		E		A		D		G		B		E
Lower
C		3		X		2		0		1		X
Am		0		X		2		2		1		X
G		3		X		0		0		0		X
D7		2		X		0		2		1		X
Higher
C		X		3		X		0		1		0
Am		X		0		X		2		1		0
G		X		2		X		0		3		3
D7		X		3		X		2		3		2

It can be noted, I love both Classic music and Cowboy music - but I know more about Classic music, that's why I write it more often./HGL

What shall one say about jumping two strings. The thing I come up with for D7 lacks the root, it doubles the third, and so I recommend omitting one occurrence of the third:

		E		A		D		G		B		E
C		0		X		X		0		1		3
Am		0		X		X		2		1		0
G		3		X		X		0		0		3
D7		(2)		X		X		2		1		(2)

What are Open String Chords?

What are Open String Chords? · Arpeggi Jumping One String · Summing Up the Use · Why Burl Ives Didn't Give Chords for All Keys

Burl Ives gave some of those for his "Songs for Picking and Singing" - may God forgive him his having been a freemason, as much as possible, but the idea is good.

Back when I was not yet Catholic, not even Lutheran, but loosely Evangelical Church Hopper, I was volunteering to learn some instrument to play in the Salvation Army. I first thought of guitar, but got stuck on a Classical G chord. Both the low E at one end and the high E at the other end are pushed down on fret three, and some chords in between higher up. This is a very uncomfortable and straining position for the left hand, arguably some barred chords are even worse, but the chord as such is a "strainer" between those who "pick up" the Classical guitar and those who don't.

In German - we were in Vienna, Austria, "anstrengend" both means "taking an effort" and "straining" - while "Anstrengung" is mainly "effort." I was complaining on how the chord was "anstrengend" (straining!) and the Salvation Army officer said about any intrument taking "Anstrengung" (effort).

I replied about a guitarist I had seen in the US, a friend of the last family we were staying long with, perhaps a suitor to one of the two daughters (at 9 I was obviously not his rival), and said I had seen him being "careless" - I should better have said "carefree" - and definitely effortless about where he put his left hand fingers and it sounded good. Picking on the "careless" part, the Salvation Army officer told me she didn't believe that.

I ended up with a tuba instead, and was too small to blow that very well, but even so ...

What was that guitarist in Anaheim doing? He was doing open string chords. One chord I am sure he didn't use was a Classic, full six strings, chord of G major. The one that strains the fingers so much.

I will here give three versions of open string chords in G, never mind if Burl Ives used or didn't use all of them. I'll give subdominant, C, subdominant parallel, and in major keys this is also called minor double-dominant, Am, I'll give the tonic, G, and I'll give the dominant, D7.

But first I will explain what is different. A Classic chord needs to be useful for quick strumming (and that is done pretty often in Salvation Army String Concerts), but the music style Burl Ives catered to was - not so much Country Western as in Dolly Parton, but more like Cowboy songs or Hillbilly. He often used some bluegrass type arpeggio.

If you strum, you need a good aim to avoid hitting all six strings. If you pick arpeggi, you can do very well with four strings. I'll give versions for the four lower, four midmost and four upper strings with each chord.

	Four Lower
C		0		3		2		0		X		X
Am		0		3		2		2		X		X
G		3		2		0		0		X		X
D7		2		3		0		2		X		X
	Four Midmost
C		X		3		2		0		1		X
Am		X		0		2		2		1		X
G		X		2		0		0		0		X
D7		X		0		4		2		1		X
	Four Higher
C		X		X		2		0		1		0
Am		X		X		2		2		1		2
G		X		X		0		0		0		3
D7		X		X		0		2		1		2

If you look at first and last versions of G, you will see how, taken together, they involve that combinations of two outermost fingers both on 3rd fret, and fingers between higher up, which stumped me so.

Rock musicians who do electric guitar actually avoid all open strings, as much as possible. How do they avoid this? Well, usually they have more than one guitarist, and each takes only part of the chord ... but this wasn't rock, this was a style that is much more relaxed - and not strained for the fingers of a Classic G chord bent.

I wonder if there aren't Classic musicians who have another version of G, all six strings, with fingers in between further down instead?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Severus of Vienne
8.VIII.2022

Viennae, in Gallia, sancti Severi, Presbyteri et Confessoris; qui ex India, Evangelii praedicandi causa, laboriosam peregrinationem suscepit, et, cum ad praefatam urbem devenisset, ingentem Paganorum multitudinem verbo et miraculis ad Christi fidem convertit.

Sonata Nemetodurica Secunda

For guitar - per chitaram hispanicam - pour guitare.

Rhapsodie de Cergy, a Bad scan, plus some Preindustrial Life Expectancy Stats

I tried to scan it in a cyber in Bagnolet. In the preview, it looked all right. When bluing it, it still looks all right. But when viewing it, the white reflections of light hide the lines in the staffs. So, unless the printout is better than the view, this scan is of little use to you. In order to give you some consolation, I took out some "years in music", deaths. How old where they when they died?

• 1749
  
  
  • February 7 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (born 1672)
  • June 11 – Johann Bernhard Bach, organist and composer, second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1676)
  • October 26 – Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, composer (born 1676)
  • November 19 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (born 1681)
  • November 27 – Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, composer (born 1690)
  • December 19 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (born 1672)
  • date unknown – Johann Ernst Galliard, composer (born 1687)
  
  
  77 73 73 68 59 77 62
  



• 1750
  
  • January 4 – Christoph Schütz, German music publisher (born 1689)
  • January 29 – Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
  • February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
  • March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (born 1686)
  • June 2 – Valentin Rathgeber, German composer (born 1682)
  • July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)
  • August – John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
  • September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
  • October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (born 1717)
  • October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist and composer (born 1687)
  • November – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian-born oboist and composer (born 1695)
  • November 15 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)
  • date unknown – Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)
  
  
  61 38 71 64 68 65 61 60 33 63 55 82 58
  



• 1751
  
  • January 17 – Tomaso Albinoni (born 1671)
  • February 18 – G iuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer (born 1685)
  • May 20 – Domènec Terradellas, composer (born 1713)
  • October 2 - Pierre Dumage, organist (born c. 1674)
  • date unknown - Henry Reinhold, singer (born c. 1690)
  
  
  80 66 38 77 61
  



• 1752
  
  • January 1 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Sufi scholar, mystic, saint, poet, and musician (born 1689)
  • March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer (born 1679)
  • June 19 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
  • July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (born 1667)
  • July 24 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
  • date unknown - Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer (born c.1708)
  
  
  63 73 85 44
  



• 1753
  
  • February 7 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori, opera composer and conductor, 60
  • February 16 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer, 77
    
  • May 19 – Jacques Aubert, composer, 63
  • August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70
  • September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer, 43
  • November - Giuseppe Valentini, violinist, painter, poet, and composer, 71
  • November 4 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach, 84
  • November 16 - Nicolas Racot de Grandval, harpsichordist and composer, 77
  • unknown date - John Holt, bell-ringer and composer, 27
  
  
  60 77 63 70 43 71 84 77 27
  



• 1754
  
  • May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
  • June 22 - Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
  • October 6 - Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
  • probable
    
    • Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
      
    • Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)
  
  
  77 91 57 54
  



• 1755
  
• January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
• January 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin, scientist and musician (born 1683)
• April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c.1692)
• June 21 – Giovanni Porta, opera composer (born c.1675)
• July 4 – John Cennick, hymn-writer (born 1718)
• July 6 – Pietro Paolo Bencini, Italian composer and Kapellmeister (born c.1670)
• July 9 – Johann Gottlob Harrer, German composer and choir leader (born 1703)
• September 30 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
• October 4 – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, of Penycuik, composer (born 1676)
• October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
• November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
• December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696)
• December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680)
• date unknown
  
  • Alexander Gordon, antiquary and singer (born c.1692)
  • Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)


50 72 63 80 37 85 52 71 79 66 68 59 75 63 77


• 1756
  
  • January 25 – Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
  • April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer (born 1661)
  • April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (born 1727)
  • August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, hymnologist (born 1671)
  • September 19 – Josef Antonin Sehling
  • date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, composer (born c. 1698)
    
    77 95 29 85 58
    
    
• 1757
  
  • March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717)
  • July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685)
  • August 11 – Jos e Pradas Gallen, composer
  • September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
  • October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688)
  • November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer
    
  • date unknown
    
    • Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
    • Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679)
    
    
  • probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)
    
    40 72 61 69 64 78 57
    
    
• 1758
  
  • January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
  • March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
  • April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
  • April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
  • June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
  • October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer a nd violinist (born c. 1690)
  • November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
  • November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
  • December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
  • probable – Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
  
  
  73 88 74 55 68 64 72 70 59
  
  
• 1759
  
  • April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685)
  • June 22 – Louis de Cahusac, librettist (born 1706)
  • July 25 – Johann Christoph Altnickol, organist, singer and composer (born 1719)
  • August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer (born 1704)
  • September 4 – Girolamo Chiti, composer
  • date unknown - Gustavus Waltz, singer
  
  
  74 53 40 55
  
  
• 1760
  
  • January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (born 1697)
  • February 14 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (born 1690)
  • February 22 – Anna Magdal ena Bach, German singer, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
  • March 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)
  • March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733)
  • April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer (born 1696)
  • May – Girolamo Abos, Italian composer (born 1715)
  • August 8 – Henry Needler, English music transcriber (born 1685)
  • November 5 – Pierre Février, French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
  
  
  63 70 59 77 27 64 45 75 64
  
  
  
  27 27 29
  33 37 38 38
  40 40 43 44 45
  50 52 53 54 55 55 55 57 57 58 58 59 59 59 59
  60 60 61 61 61 61 62 63 63 63 63 63 63 64 64 64 64 64 65 66 66 68 68 68 68 69
  70 70 70 71 71 71 72 72 72 73 73 73 73 74 74 75 75 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 78 79
  80 80 82 84 85 85 85 88
  91 95
  
  27 27 29 33 37 38 38 40 40 43 44 45 50 52 53 54 55 55 55 57
  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
  
  57 58 58 59 59 59 59 60 60 61 61 61 61 62 63 63 63 63 63 63
  21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
  
  64 64 64 64 64 65 66 66 68 68 68 68 69 70 70 70 71 71 71 72
  41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
  
  72 72 73 73 73 73 74 74 75 75 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 78
  61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
  
  79 80 80 82 84 85 85 85 88 91 95
  81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91
  
  Minimum (1) 27 years
  Lower quartile (22/23) 58 years
  sorry, should have been (23/24) 58/59 years
  Median (46) 65 years
  Higher quartile (69/70) 75 years
  sorry, should have been (67/68) 74 years.
  Maximum (91) 95 years


So, no, composers back then were not dying very young. Mozart was not typical. He was probably deliberately exposed to hardships by the freemasons (was nearly saying psychiatrists, not always very different, had slept too little this night) to whom he had confided himself. His appartment was probably less healthy than my life in the streets. Probably partly because in winter I often get to sleep in heated buildings and winter or summer I spend hours in libraries, which are usually well heated.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St John's Day
24.VI.2016

Updates: 1) Fixed some html here; 2) I have now a site online where I can download music paper with black and better scannable staffs.

Rhapsodia Laudunensis

Rhapsodia Defensae pro Chitara Hispanica

Sonata Pentatonica Modulans

Nouveau scan/new scan:

Notandum: troisième ligne, deuxième mesure, la deuxième note est, si possible sur D et 5, mais sinon sur G et 0 va aussi (c'est mieux si c'est une autre chorde que G, vu que la note suivante est sur G et 2, alors ils peuvent sonner ensemble).

Old scan/vieux scan:

Errata: première ligne, quatrième mesure, la quatrième note est sur G et 0; troisième ligne, deuxième mesure, la deuxième note est, si possible sur D et 5, mais sinon sur G et 0 va aussi (c'est mieux si c'est une autre chorde que G, vu que la note suivante est sur G et 2, alors ils peuvent sonner ensemble); troisième ligne dernière mesure, dernière note, c'est comme on voit déjà sur E aigu, il s'agit de 0; dernière ligne, première mesure, la 3 doit être sur B et non sur E aigu.

Mediæval Modal Jingle for Ukulele

Sonata Octavarum Transpositionum, bis, ter

sive - francogallice - Sonatine XVI bis, Mi Mineur

ter, varia versio eiusdem:

Ad propositum Sonatae Octavarum Transpositionum (Eng/Fr)

ENG

I was tired when writing, otherwise I would probably have transposed it for a neater tablature. As I now see playing 10-7-4-0 on thinner E string is hard or impossible on successive eighth notes (crotchets), so I corrected in the comment to (see below). I might correct it as is, or I might transpose to easier ambitus.

FR

En écrivant j'étais fatigué, autrement j'aurais probablement transposé pour une tablature mieux jouable. Comme je le vois maintenant, jouer sur des croches successives les 10-7-4-0 sur la chorde E de discante est difficile ou impossible, donc dans le commentaire j'ai corrigé en (voir en bas). Je pourrais corriger la sonatine telle quelle ou autrement transposer pour un ambitus moins difficile.

E:10-7-X-0
B: X -X-9-X
et c.

Sonata Octavarum Transpositionum

Sive ... Sonatine XVI pour Guitare

Guitare Sonatine XV

Canon Jazz per tre Chitarre

Tres Canones

Le manuscrit est un cadeau anniversaire pour la volontaire de l'Ordre De Malte, ce Samedi passé.

Tablatures vers génériques (pas de moi, ni les thèmes, ni les tablatures, je ne donne que les liens)

http://erwan.revert.free.fr/tabland/?action=bo Index
http://erwan.revert.free.fr/tabland/tab/adams.htm Addams
http://erwan.revert.free.fr/tabland/tab/bonbrute.htm Le Bon Le Brut et Le Truand
http://erwan.revert.free.fr/tabland/tab/pantrose.htm Panthère Rose/Pink Panther
http://erwan.revert.free.fr/tabland/tab/starwars.htm Star Wars

Just linking. Someone else composed each theme, someone else made the tabs, someone else made them accessible on that site - where I give a few of my favourite ones./HGL

Sonata de Platea Quadrata et deux autres

Quatre Exercises Bellovaques pour guitares (TAB)

La première pourrait être jouée par un duo, à moins de la varier comme indiqué en bas, la deuxième est normale

Encore deux, dont la deuxième en tonalité modale:

Den första gång jag såg dig - Sjöberg (arr. H G Lundahl)

Chaque note est soit une croche, soit marquée de valeur en dessus.

Sonata Regalis et Dunhilliana

Pour un bon guitarriste ou un duo de guitarristes bien accordés ensemble. Sur la troisième mésure de la seconde reprise, j'ai noté les tablatures comme pour deux guitarristes, c à d 0 et 4 sur la même chorde, mais si c'est un seul, au lieu de Re, chorde libre, il prendra La, frette 5.

Quasi ritmo della Iota Spagnola