Be it as it is - when reading the lyrics I just imagine the need for some light entertainment in times when there was no TV. The story has all the attributes of such a story: a heroe, a traitor, a love story, pretty girl with blue eyes and blond hair, horses, a duel, finally a dramatic end depicted in sentimental words ... And the music by Sautscheck & Co. (Zumsteeg) supports the story quite well. Okay - I better leave these topic now.
Thomas Am Sam, 2004-01-17 um 17.05 schrieb Roman Turovsky: > > Okayokay! > > Anyhow we are using "Ritter Rudolph" as encore in our baroque lute duet > > program (and plan to add several more). Juerg has quite a respectable > > bariton. The song has a nice entertaining melody and the lyrics > > although they sound funny to our modern ears are very interesting (some > > sort of romantic soap opera). > Melodrama rather. Soaps have neither beginning nor end. > RT > -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
