>> My point remains: name one piece of solo lute music ever composed >> for a concert-hall.
Entire collections of music for Dance exist with the music given in lute tablature. Dance is noisy. One couple dancing isnt too bad, and there were situations where that would have happened; but in a ball one has dozens of people dancing, talking loudly, and generally having a good time. Perhaps an orchestra of lutes theorbos etc would work, but what then of the art necessary to make the dances needing variations work? (eg, galliardes, where the music needs variations to encourage the dancers to explore more than the simple cinc-pas). -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
