Neil
It is interesting that lute manuals do not usually give chord
shapes, whereas this is often
basic to guitar text-books. I think this may be because, it is felt
that although Renaissance lute players
may have used what we would recognize as chords, perhaps if they came
from a polyphonic tradition
they might not have seen them exactly in that light.
Did any Renaissance manual give examples of chord shapes? Modern
manuals are probably strongly based
on the perspective of these old manuals. For example, Damiani's
"Method for Renaissance Lute" (which someone
on the list recently considered as very complete) gives three voice
scales, but no chord patterns as such.
I may be completely wrong here, as I am certainly no musicologist. it
is just an intuition I have about this.
However, I am afraid I have not answered your question. What was the
website that you looked at?
Was it this one? http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/lute/rennaissance/
Regards
Anthony
Le 15 juin 07 à 16:31, Narada a écrit :
> Greetings,
>
> Well I'm now utterly confused with regards to chords on the lute. Can
> someone recommend where I can get hold of a definitive book of chord
> shapes for 6 course lute or possibly 8 course or a decent link. The
> confusion has arisen out of looking at a website that gives full barre
> chords, which seems to be at odds with other information that I've
> got.
>
> This would be extremely helpful as I would like to transcribed 'Le
> Clochard' from guitar to 6 course manually rather than using Guitar
> Pro,
> so that I can get a better understanding of the transcription process
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> Neil Woodhouse ( UK )
>
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