Luters, I am presently working on a Pavan by Byrd set by Francis Cutting for a program of Elizabethan Ballads and Dances.I put the piece in with a group of Cutting pieces. The "Cutting" style is evident in his "reworking" or "recomposition" of this work. I consider it as original in the way Mr. Cutting has used the lute to express his rendition of the Byrd piece. Would I call this a Cutting composition? NO. I think of it as an original Cutting impression of a keyboard piece by Byrd - in effect an original piece for the lute by Cutting, much as I consider Andres Segovia's "Bach Chaconne" or his recomposition of DeVisee or Llobet's thinning out + guitaristic coloring of Granados as original works for the guitar...........Let the semantic fur fly!!!!
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