I have to say for me I think the available evidence points nowhere.
People can't even agree on whether the pieces are playable on the lute,
and not only that, playability is not an indicator of authorship or
orchestration, so who cares? All this stuff about the original intent
of
] On Behalf Of
Jaroslaw Lipski
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:14 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted
Roman,
Yes , no one questions that. Lute Suites are not well written for lute, for
sure. Weather they are playable or not can be discussed
Let's see, Bach owned a lute, but didn't play it. Probably used it for
a planter.
In all seriousness, this argument hinges on the idea of an urtext,
which is simply not tenable for a composer who arranged and rearranged
his own works as well as the works of other composers. We don't
While I enjoyed this read, I didn't see anything particularly new here. For
example, Hopkinson Smith specifically named all the sources of Bach's original
lute music in the liner notes he drafted for his recording of this music
around 30 years ago. He also stated their evident non-lute
