>The pieces by FdM I'm playing are Fantasias 31, 32, 41, 81 and Ricercars 4,= >=20 >67.
So those are Ness numbers? >I just couldn't believe the music would actually be so barren and aimless,=20 >but only after a while did it occur to me that there might be more to it tha= >n=20 >that. FdaM is one of the finest composers I know. He never ceases to amaze. He always writes in perfect counterpoint, using consonant intervals and the appropriate movement, obeying the rules of Renaissance theory. But it is the way he explores the smallest motive and milks it and then modifies it into something else that impresses me. >It's certainly been one of the great successes of the last years, taking up=20 >the lute. I can now play to my heart's content, whereas with the guitar I ha= >d=20 >to limit myself to about =BE 0f an hour or the left wrist started hurting wi= >th=20 >the tendonitis. Watch out, it can happen on lute too. Easy does it. -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
