At 10:43 AM -0600 7/11/05, Michael Thames wrote: > I'm also courious about Couprion. Not being a historian , but able to >add 2 and 2 together, one would have expected to see volumes of records made >of Couperin's lute suites, what a find that would be! Yet as an avid >collector of all baroque lute Cd's that I come across, I've yet to see any >lute suites or peices by him. One might also have expected Paul Odette to >record the complete "Lute Works of William Byrd".
>Here's a quote from DAS "History of the lute" > > William Byrd (1542-1623) the most highly regaurded composer of >the English Renaissance, wrote no music for the lute. However, >lutenists transcribed some of his keyboard and vocal pieces for >thier instrument, about a half a dozen of these intabulations >survive today I believe Paul Odette's very first commercial release was dedicated to Byrd and Dowland. He must have played all the extant Byrd tabs then. As for Couperin, DeVise arranged at least one piece for theorbo. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
