This is something that I need to get done with a bit of lead time... a group has asked me to play a concerto, and a few obligato arias on the Viola d'amore.... two Vivaldi pieces, and a Graupner one... unfortunately, that does make for three different tunings of the instrument in a single concert. the two Vivaldi pieces are similar... in d minor and D major, so with only that "third" string being the retuned one.

The Graupner tuning is quite a bit different... not crazily different, but enough that it will need a bit of a buffer in the programming to allow the tuning to settle.

But more importantly, I need to transcribe a scordatura (tablature) for each of the pieces... one of the Vivaldi pieces is in sounding pitch, as is the Graupner concerto. However, one of the Vivaldi pieces is conveniently in a tablature already... in an original score facsimile!

Funnily enough, I prefer to read off these original scribbles... but very few people in Australia do... even those who are supposed to be specialists. I do find that quite weird... seeing as it was quite common in Europe for us to just read from these original copies. I find the "modern" reproductions to be hideously sterile... and cold. Sure, there are clearer to read... but there is just so much lost in comparison to the original writing or typesetting.

... and a good chunk of that is the latter day standardisation of notation...

So, this is a page from the original score of one of the Vivaldi pieces... in the end, I will re-write out the scordatura part for myself... in my own handwriting! There are just too many scribbled out parts that makes the whole thing about 3 times longer in terms of number of pages... and when I'm playing, I don't have a spare hand to flip lots and lots of pages at the same time as playing solos!

Plus... there are quite strange requests from Vivaldi... lots of chords that aren't possible given the tuning that seems to fit the aria. I will have to make some editorial decisions there... as I really don't think that the tuning system is wrong (it has the right notes for the scordatura that he has written, and the right chords when it is a completely open strum across all the strings.

I do wonder if some of the impossible chords are perhaps multiple options for the Da Capo instead? Who knows...

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