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Thread #103897   Message #2123260
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Aug-07 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: tunes in E minor
Subject: RE: Chord Req: tunes in E minor
It seems the Neusiedler "Judentanz" was notated in scordatura and somebody misunderstood the notation. It isn't really bitonal at all.

There is a similar one in the Scottish lute repertoire, a "Gypsie Lilt" with a mindblowing chord that Wagner would have found startling. If you reckon that the tablature writer simply got the wrong string by mistake it sounds perfectly normal for the period.