Dear Steve, when we rehearsed the ensemble version two years ago, we (or I) decided it would be better not to try to keep track with this highly dramatic and colourful piece on an 8 course. Continuo style wouldn't work and intabulation even less. So I stuck to the monodic stuff and the 16th century polyphony in our concert. It was quite hard for the singers to keep the intonation, but after all that's what a singer has to learn. The performance was nicely dark-coloured and flexible without the "pling-pling"...
Regards, Stephan Regards, Stephan Am 24 Jan 2006 um 20:08 hat Steve Ramey geschrieben: > Dear Collected Wisdom, > > Looks like I have the opportunity to play lute with a local > university's go at Monteverdi's Lamento d' Arianna in a couple > months. The music says it's for mixed chorus, a cappella, but the > fellow putting it together has mentioned accompanying the singers > with a small organ (organetto?) and lute. The chorus there consists > of about eight or nine folks, half students and half community > members; they'll need all the help we can give them. > > Is there a bonafide accompaniment for this, or am I on my own with > my modest (read: meager) abilities to create something based on the > vocal parts? For the moment, I'm more fluent at reading bass clef > than tab. I welcome your comments and suggestions. > > Thanks, > Steve > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
