[LUTE] Re: Palestrina's lute -- Composition

[David Tayler]

This is a nice window into the composer's world
http://tinyurl.com/57qqqq

I love all q's in the tiny url.
It also hints that figured bass may have arisen from a counterpoint tutor.
Why not?
dt


At 02:37 AM 6/10/2008, you wrote:

>On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote:
>
> > Many thanks indeed. The Amazon site gives a lot of detail about
> > Palestrina, and confirms that he used the lute while composing. Jessie
> > Owens' book certainly looks a good read.
>
>
>Composers at Work? Yeah, it's a real page turner. :-)  Here is the
>exact quote. It is in the chapter called Composing Without Writing. I
>just happened to turn right to it on p.73.
>
>There is also evidence that Palestrina may have used the lute in
>composing. A letter from a Mantuan court official, Annibale Capello,
>describes Palestrina's composition of a Mass for Duke Guglielmo
>Gonzaga: Palestrina has begun to set the Kyrie and Gloria of the
>first mass on the lute." Given the fact that many composers were
>accomplished organists or lutenists (including William Byrd, Adrian
>Willaert, and Palestirna himself) it is quite likely that further
>evidence will turn up.
>
>
>One thing I think scholars like yourself will like about this book is
>that the footnotes are at the bottom of the pages, instead of at the
>end of chapters or the book, and when she quotes someone she puts the
>original language right next to the English translation in two
>columns, - a nice touch.
>
>Also on p. 72 she says:
>It is noteworthy that the Hungarian lutenist and composer Balint
>Bakfark had himself portrayed in the woodcut on the title page of his
>first publication holding a lute while seated in front of a table
>that had a quill pen and an open music book" the image is of the
>composer playing and writing. (There is a picture.)
>
>cheers,
>
>Ed Durbrow
>Saitama, Japan
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
>
>
>
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