David, Thanks for your interest in my recording.
1) The interlude is really just a simplified reduction of the harmonic ground of the first couplet: a passacaglia bass. It was purely my decision to add this intro (it's just descending single notes A-G-F-E) and to run the minuet and chaconne together. I can't really justify it for any reason other than it sounded cool to me, but conjecture that it may have been the sort of thing a 17th century musician might have thought was cool, too. There are also some obvious errors in the tab, which I corrected. There is a note in the manuscript at the end of chaconne saying to repeat the first couplet after every other couplet but I sometimes repeated after two couplets or so. Again, totally my call. I tried to do things according to what the sources state and what seemed most dramatically satisfying to me. 2) I second Mathias's recommendation of Stefan Lundgren's book. Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com --- On Thu, 9/1/11, Mathias Rösel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote: > From: Mathias Rösel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: French Baroque Theorbo Performance Practice > To: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 9:42 AM > The Lute Companion, a large > collection of 11c lute music compiled by Stefan > Lundgren´, has some major 17th century sources on lute > music performance > collected in his introduction. Highly recommended. > > Mathias > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu > [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] > Im > > Auftrag von David Smith > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. September 2011 05:30 > > An: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > > Betreff: [BAROQUE-LUTE] French Baroque Theorbo > Performance Practice > > > > Greetings, > > > > I have been looking at the performance of > Hurel by Christopher Wilke on > > his CD and have a couple of questions: > > > > 1. Between > the Menuet de l'Opera and the Chaconne composee pour > > Melle De la Balme on the last track there > is an interlude that is not > > clear to me where it comes from. Anyone > have a thought? > > > > 2. What is > a good reference for French Baroque performance > > practice on Lute and/or Theorbo > (preferably in English)? I hear lots of > > ornamentation as well as additional notes > in the CD performance and > > would love to have some guidance on what > is stylistically appropriate. > > Otherwise I end of copying what I hear > (which is not bad but having > > knowledge would be nice). > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any information you > can provide. > > > > > > Regards > > > > David > > > > > > David W. Smith > > > > 355 NW Silverado Dr. > > > > Beaverton, OR 97006 > > > > 503.753.8417 > > > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
