Dear lute friends,
As you most probably know, the âBurwell Lute Tutorâ is a manuscript tutor for the baroque lute. The manuscript is Miss Mary Burwellâs (born 1654) copy of a method written by an Englishman (the name Mr. John Rogers has been suggested) who claims was himself a pupil of the French Ennemond Gaultier. The teacher corrected Miss Burwellâs copy of the text and filled in the music examples. Both the âBurwell Lute Tutorâ and âThe Lute Made Easieâ (by Thomas Mace, London, 1676) are two very authentic and surviving sources of its time teaching in great detail from A to Z how to play the baroque lute. For teaching practice, the manuscript contains examples of French-style lute pieces, mainly fragments and sometimes individual bars only. The music examples are chaotic, with both teacher and pupil contributing to mistakes Some of the pieces are known, and concordances exist in other lute manuscripts, other pieces are new and unique. Over the last months or so I tried playing nearly all pieces after I identified (if possible), corrected and completed majority of the pieces from the Burwell Lute Tutor. Please find here the link to my compilation of baroque lute pieces from the âBurwell Lute Tutorâ: [1]http://www.apeptico.com/index-burwell_lute_tutor Please stay healthy and resist Corona! Ernst Bernhard ("viennalute") from Vienna. -- References 1. http://www.apeptico.com/index-burwell_lute_tutor To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
