biber unhinged scordatura, the king of heinrich ignaz von biber bach's precursor in german baroque lutheran church composers that wrote really kick ass violin music but biber was primarily a violinist whereas bach only started out as one and got more preoccupied with more churchy things he is one of my favorite violin composers of all time; gotta spread the word. not too many people are hip to biber. he got lost in bach's shadow. even though he was the best violinist of his time according to contemporary accounts. play biber is a baroque loser 060310 ... Floptolemy O.K. lady, you aren't a "baroque loser". If I am not a "baroque loser" then you cannot be one either. 061102 ... Pto And I will try and check him out more thoroughly. 061102 ... Floptolemy Suggestions? 061102 ... unhinged the 'rosary' or 'mystery' sonatas for accompanied violin they go by either title. it is a collection of 15 programmatic sonatas based on the stations of the cross. there is a 16th unaccompanied passacaglia in the set that is a lament on the life and death of christ. I LOVE THAT ONE. i play it semi regularly. you might even be able to find baroque recordings where the violinist is playing the scordatura. in fact, i think you will only find baroque recordings. early music people are the only ones that tend to know about biber. 061103 ... unhinged revelation biber was sonorous in a way bach could never be. bach was preoccupied with the compositional process. biber wanted to write stuff that would sound good on the violin. 061103 ... Pto I, too, like period instrumentality. And thanks for the suggestions! It may take me a while to get to them but I'll get back to you, uH. 061103 ... unhinged last summer when i was practicing regularly at home for my symphony audition, i left for work in a hurry without realizing my music pocket wasn't zipped. some kid chased me down at the busstop and handed me all my originals but said all the photocopied pages were blowing all over the neighborhood. i was glad to get the pieces back cause i needed one of them for the audition but my copy of that biber lament was lost with the other drunken flotsam in that neighborhood. some drunk asshole probably used it to wipe their ass. i've since moved on to the funerary violin music. but now that i think of it, i would sure love to have a copy of that piece again. 090813 ... unhinged i finally ordered a second copy of the sheetmusic for the lament. i can't wait til the mail comes is a baroque violin nerd 140302 what's it to you? who go blather from