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[LUTE] More on lute songs

Bruno Correia
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:56:08 -0700

Hi everybody,

Recently, working with a new singer on my English Lute songs program, I
started to wonder why these songs do not have an introduction or an
instrumental part in the middle or at the end. Were lutenists expected to
improvise or to compose extra bits of music for performance? In case they
didn't do it, are we suposed to do so? I don't recall hearing anybody
(besides Edin Karamazov) doing so. For example, Anthony Rooley with Emma
Kirkby presented these songs with no intro whatsoever.

Any thoughts?

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