I have been asking these questions for a fomer student and teaching assistant, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, who has become a very successful composer. Robert was just in Boston for the recording of a work for percussion commissioned by the New England Conservatory. A year before that he was here for the performance of a marionette ballet commissioned by the Boston Syumphony Children's Concerts, conducted by Keith Lockhart. It was based on the Tempest, and Robert incorporated Elizabethen virgnal music to represent the Europens and old Mexican folksong to represent the New Worlders. He has always had a fascination with using older musics in his often ultra-modern works. Some of his works are twelve tone. (With the years his music has calmed down.)
He seems first to have encountered early music in a seminar he took with me on medieval music. And became very enthusiastic about chant, medieval dances and structural devices like isorhythm. It all found its way into an opera that was nominated for a Pulizer Prize. Anyway, he's at work with something to do with Harlequin, and asked me to find some early music examples. He plans some kind of musical collage, and you will have assisted him. Thank you all so very much! To answer Arto's question, he also found some information about Trivelins. Another commedia d'arte character. This one plays a mandolina in black face. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.chello.nl/~m.teriele/masker/krtcomm/trivelin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.chello.nl/~m.teriele/masker/krtcomm/trivelin.html&h=262&w=174&sz=7&hl=en&start=22&um=1&tbnid=Ety4tVJl8ZsKlM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtrivelin%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2006-37,GGLD:en%26sa%3DN Thank you all again for your assistance. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vihuela List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:38 PM Subject: [LUTE] BTW Trivelins? > > Dear collective wisdom: > >> "Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins et Arlequins". > > Arlequins I know, Scaramouche is a character in > Commedia dell'arte. > But who are the Trivelins? > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
