>By the way, has anybody noticed that there is a version >for lute of a
>piece by
>Bull (for keyboard - of course).
>Rainer adS
Not mention an "original" piece written in grand staff for lute by
Mozart. Variations on the " Champagne Lied". For some strange reason
Scheidler intabulated it. Maybe it's because he played the lute! I don't
know!
Micheal
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From: "adS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Byrd
> Arthur Ness wrote:
>> Perhaps it is a bit too early to call for a revised edition of Doug's
>> lute
>> history. But with 58 pieces in the Paston lute books, and all the other
>> pieces that Rainer and I listed, quite a bit more than a half dozen works
>> by
>> Byrd have come down to us in versions for lute. As I mentioned in my
>> initial
>> posting, some are arrangements (by name composers such has Cutting and
>> Holborne). And who is to say whether the corantos, pavans and the famous
>> volta, were not first composed as lute pieces, and then keyboardized. As
>> Byrd
>> did with works by Dowland, John Johnson and others. And these works
>> deserve
>> our attention. The Byrd version of Johnson Delight Pavan and Galliard is
>> the
>> earliest one. And it shows that the opening four notes in later versions
>> are
>> not the melody, but a written out ornament. Another reason to favor the
>> Spencer/Robinson/Berger policy of including all relevant versions of a
>> piece
>> in a collected edition.
>>
>
> By the way, has anybody noticed that there is a version for lute of a
> piece by
> Bull (for keyboard - of course).
>
> Rainer adS
>
>
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