Should we make a "Club of the 8 course proud users" ?
Val (is it an half penny idea ?)
;-)))
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From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jean-Marie Poirier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute"
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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:38 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: 7c at 64cms
Jean-Marie,
I am glad somebody agrees with me on this issue. Theis topic, 8 course
lutes, was discussed some tome ago on this list. I also have an 8 course
lute., and I like it ever so much more than a 7 course lute I once had.
ed
At 01:02 PM 4/3/2008 +0200, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote:
Martin,
I totally agree with all of that, including your non-ostracizing the poor
8c ;-) !
So much music, Elizabethan and continental as well, is designed for 8c
that it seems more than strange to reject this type of lute. If it's only
a matter of personnal taste, then I can understand and accept it, but I
can think of no music-ologic-al reasons to do so.
Obviously, the 9c lived a very short life, a quarter of a century at
best, but 7c and 8c lasted much longer, if the repertoire can be an
indication af anything regarding instruments in use at the time...
Another obvious thing is that lute players used several instruments simply
because it was easier, and sort of cheaper, to get them then than now.
Just my tupence (let's make it three pence ;-)) thought on that matter,
Jean-Marie
======= 03-04-2008 12:29:04 =======
>Dear Anthony and All,
>
>I assume the "Martin" you refer to is me. I don't remember ever saying
>that I thought Dowland changed from 7c to 9c without ever using an 8c,
>or that any of these changes coincided with his change from TI to TO.
>We simply don't know the answer to any of these questions.
>
>I do think it likely that the change from TI to TO is related to the
>increase in number of courses, and also to the change in musical style
>from equal-voiced polyphony to a more treble-and-bass style.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Martin
>
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