On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:51 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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.
My point still remains... ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. > Dance is noisy. One couple dancing isnt too bad, and there were > situations where that would have happened; Absolutely, as in the home: in England anyway, until the Restoration. But even in the home there would most probably have been numerous instruments involved in domestic music-making. > 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, I imagine they would have used louder instruments, such as rebecs, or fiddles to play the dance tunes wouldn't they? I agree, a lone lute is not going to hold its own in a room full of dancers. > 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). Consorts? I don't know if dances in lute tablature were supposed to be danced to or not. A lone player can still capture the essence of a pavan, galliard, courante etc. while playing it as a solo piece. David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
