Dear All, Having been involved in performing some of this music when Jon was developing these ideas, I am also convinced by his arguments and I have to say we lutenists have really been missing a trick here. The music is truly excellent, by some of the best composers of the age (Isaac comes first to mind, but Agricola and others feature strongly too). It does help if you use different-sized lutes, because then the lines fall comfortably on the upper courses in low positions on all the lutes - you don't want to be growling around on the lowest three courses all the time, or straining yourself playing constantly on frets 10-12.
I also agree with Stewart that tablature is hopeless for this music - it's so much easier to read ordinary notation. But just for the people who only read tab, I did a tab version of the Isaac Benedictus for Lute News a few years ago, for three G lutes. Maybe I should give it to you all as a Piece of the Month? In the meantime, anyone who would like a copy can just email me and get a Fronimo file by return. Best wishes, Martin > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
