Fredrico Marincola did an interesting course at the LSA a few years back that looked at the divisions in the Capirola lute book. The first problem in trying to analyze them is to sort the divisions out from regular moving passages. He had us compare several Capirola intabulations with the original polyphony, which makes it relatively easy to separate the divisions from ordinary passage work. We then organized them by the interval between the beginning and end of the division, to give us a convenient compendium that we could use. Those don't necessarily translate to the use of divisions on other types of music, especially dances, but it at least gives you a good idea how the composer used divisions with polyphony. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vance Wood<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lute list<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 6:31 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: writing divisions
They have to follow the chord progression and be in the same key or mode as the composition they compliment. Other than that I know of little else that govern them. Divisions can be viewed as improvisational despite the fact that most of our exposure to them have been in written variations in pieces like Lachremae, or ground and treble duets. Studying these sources will give you an idea of how they were used. Most English pieces are full of examples of theme and ornamentation with divisions, simply disceting these pieces should give you some sort of idea how they were used. Vance Wood ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: [LUTE] writing divisions > what are the 'rules' for writing divisions? > regards > Charles > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html> > --
