Dear Friends, I have enjoyed playing the melodies in O'Neill's "Music of Ireland" on the recorder and thought it would be interesting to try to arrange some of them for baroque lute. So, with no particular criterion of selection beyond what appeals to me at the moment, I have attempted to do so. The arrangements are rather simple, consisting generally of three parts: the given melody with an added bass line, repeated once with a simple harmonization of the melody, and repeated again with a small embellishment of the melody, and can be found here: http://lutegroup.ning.com/forum/topics/irish-tunes. Never having taken a class or had an instructor in music theory, I am attempting these arrangements in part as an exercise to apply what little bit of music theory I have been able to acquire on my own. If anyone would care to make corrections or suggest improvements, I would be grateful for the opportunity to learn. Please write me at my personal e-mail address (stephenwar...@verizon.net). I have also posted some rather rough recordings of these arrangements, which you can find on my Lute Group page (http://lutegroup.ning.com/profile/StephenArndt). As time permits, I hope to add in the future to these initial attempts.
Best regards, Stephen Arndt -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
