For those of you interested in playing this style of music or just learning more about it, note that Crawford Young will be teaching a course dedicated to it at the LSA Lute Festival this Summer in Cleveland (25 through 30 June). http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/seminar/index.html
Daniel Heiman On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:09:30 -0800 Sean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Stuart, > > > >> A player w/ a 5 or 6 course lute could play at least any > >> two single voices of a composition and would have been useful in > >> consort (as well as part of a duo or a soloist and would probably > have > >> been expected to be all three). > >> > >> > > This wouldn't be so easy playing with a plectrum, though. > > It was late and I knew this wasn't coming out as clear as I wanted. > I > meant the range of the lute offered the _choice_ of playing one line > > but any of the parts. Ie, filling in for the CT, Ten or Cantus. Yes, > > it's all about the melody of that part which the lute can do very > well. > > > But > > fingerstyle play may well have been practices as well, no doubt. > > Jean-Paul Bazin plays fifteenth century music on gittern with his > wife > > on plectrum lute, playing with a mixed plectrum/fingerstye > technique. > > But this is for repertoire like Paumann where the lute is very > much an > > accompanist, playing the tenor line with occasional thirds and > fifths. > > Many of the Buxheim pieces make for great duos! Especially for 4th > (5th?) apart lutes. > > > Maybe this is the next thing for lute players after coming to > terms > > with > > French, Italian, German and Neopolitan tab - facsimiles in > mensural > > notation! > > > > > Many folks play and sing from the old facsimiles. If they can do it, > > why shouldn't we? There's a lovely facsimile of the Odh Canti A > available..... > > Sean > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
