Phew... that is one ticking time-sensitive task complete! Our last concert of the year has me programmed to play a couple of Hume pieces (hmmm... that makes me sound like a robot....).

Anyway, the two pieces that I'm doing is the pair Life and Deth... and they are originally written in a gamba tablature (the top line on the printed edition)... and then someone has also written the sounding pitch (which wasn't present in the original edition). However, seeing as I can't read either of those versions on the viola d'amore fast enough (Gamba tablature due to low usage... and sounding pitch due to the constatly shifting tuning system for the instrument that I'm not confident that I will always have the right thing in mind...), I had to rewrite both pieces in my own viola d'amore scordatura coding.

It is a bit of a slog to do... but after several hours I had them all done, and fittingly enough, completed whilst the kids were playing Spiritfarer on the Switch in the background (it is a game about bringing souls across the river Styx!).

Anyway, Hume was one of the most famed viola da gamba proponents in early Baroque England, and much of his works are quite well-loved by gamba players around the world. However, I wanted a piece of that action... and so, I programmed some music for myself.

Now that it is done, all that remains is to practice it and get it in my hands, heart, and head! The concert is still over a month away, so lots and lots of time... but there are two other concerts for our ensemble in between now and then, so I might just take the opportunity to perform these pieces in these concerts so that I have had a chance to work them before our last big concert of the year!

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