Playing Lumsden from keyboard notation definitely a must. This one book will give you a wide range of experieince applicable to lute solos, lute songs, consort music and especially continuo. The transcription system was the most progressive of its time. It is a very convenient benchmark. If you can read it, your skill are pretty good, good enough to dip in to score reading. You could also feel comfortable in a midlevel orchestra audtion setting, or for a spot in a continuo scholarship. You can also visualize polyphony at that level. If you can't read it, chances are your bass clef needs work. In a way, it is one of the best lute tutors written. Highly recommended. Available in most libraries. dt
At 10:26 AM 7/7/2008, you wrote: >Don't know if still available, but Lumsden's old anthology was what >got me started on staff notation 1,000 years ago. I painfully >transcribed the first third of the "Lachrimae" into guitar standard >notation, got impatient & disgusted, and just learned staff for lute >in G. It's much easier than German tab. and you don't even have to >flop your brain as is necessary for learning Italian tab. Lute in "A" >is easy if one has a classical guitar background- simply pretend one >has a high "a" string. There was (is?) a staff version of the >"Varietie" as well. > >For Baroque lute there is Perrine's "Pieces de luth en musique", >Paris, ca. 1680 the one lute book originally in staff notation. >Perhaps an easier path for beginning Baroque lute staff reading may >be reading not too technically advanced violin music- harmonically >sparer, and melodically rewarding when not too technically >challenging. > >Going back in the other direction, pre-tab lute music may simply be >undesignated staff notation, tab being an expedient for clarifying >music of consistently more than one part on a fretted instrument. One >could simply begin by reading single line stuff- with or without a >Medieval plectrum- from the Odhecaton or other early sources. > > >>>>Are there any > >>>>sources for learning notation on the lute. > >>> > >> > >>Yes there are. Virtually any old lute edition from the last century > >>had the cumbersome twofold system of staff with tablature under it. > >>So to practice reading from staff would be straightforward with > >>works like Poulton's Dowland, Ness' da Milano, any edition from > >>CRNS a.s.o. My lute teacher always tried to encourage me to learn > >>to read from staff notation. > >> > >>G. > >> > >-- > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
