Perhaps she is now no longer
scordatura, (9) discordant, or rather she has accepted that life is always a matter of passing to and fro between harmony and discord.
Fourth, the works for
scordatura violin--the violin transcription of the sonata by Kertzinger and two anonymous sonatas (nos.16-17 in the edition)--are significant for our knowledge of the use of
scordatura at Kromeriz, a device in vogue during this period and prized by Carl Liechtenstein.
Like Biber's Rosary Sonatas they also use
scordatura (retuning of the strings)--a technique also employed in the last preserved instrumental piece by Dr.
Copied in three stages and owned by a competent violinist, the manuscript contains 32 virtuoso violin compositions -- mostly sonatas, many of high quality, some in
scordatura -- by leading members of the Austrian, German and Roman schools of violin composition as well as representatives of the Amsterdam tradition, some anonymous.
The manuscript contains two versions: one for
scordatura violin tuned a--[e.sup.l]--[a.sup.1]--[d.sup.2], and one for viola da gamba in the normal D--G--c--e--a-[d.sup.1] tuning.
Not only is he capable of taking us from the height of ecstasy to the depths of despair, or vice versa, within a few notes, but to write a work in one key and conceive of the viola part with '
scordatura' tuning that works...
The remainder of segment A is devoted solely to describing how to draw graphical aids for various imagined tunings of the common vihuela and other instruments, as well as for vihuelas with more or fewer strings and in
scordatura tuning.
With their systematic use of
scordatura - Biber prescribes a different string tuning for each Partia - and their brilliant divisions in the variation movements, these works must rank among the most difficult of all Baroque chamber works.
525)--a single staff showing the opening bars of the sixth concerto of La Cetra--the three bars of notes are visible, but the designations Violino principale con
scordatura and the Allegro can be seen only with a magnifying glass.
Much ink has been spilt over the exact identity of the ~duoi Violini piccioli alla Francese' specified in Act 2 of Orfeo.(13) It used to be thought that the instrument in question was the small Violin, 75 per cent of full-size (traditionally called half-size in the trade), written for in
scordatura by late 17th- and early 18th-century composers such as Erlebach, Fux and J.
The Bishop himself took an interest in the latter technique--here Sehnal pays tribute to a prior archival investigator, Paul Nettl--after hearing dances with
scordatura violins during Carnival in 1673.
The exceptions are: timpani notation and carryover of accidentals, which can produce semitone errors; natural harmonics notated at lingered pitch, which can produce errors of a few large intervals; baritone horn and euphonium clef dependencies, which can produce errors of a major ninth; and
scordatura and scores in C, which can lead to errors of almost any range.