Yep, I'll bet folks walked away from his concerts pretty impressed.
Granted, his rep didn't include many intabulations though some of dance
variations on The Battle are not for the faint of finger; ditto his Si
Purtigardo.
He's also a good source of variations on dance music. There are scads
of Passemezzoes, Saltarellia/Gagliards and Padoanos. [ok, what's the
lutelist standard for pluralizing foreign words here? I'll hereby
confess to not knowing enough Italian]. Often he'll repeat dances in
subsequent books in different keys (cf. Il Gorzanis, Bataille, Antico,
Moderno, etc). I suspect that seperating out the contrapunti from the
chords would give us plenty of duet/improv fodder for different lutes,
a la Pacaloni.
Lots of good stuff here but, ohL ordy,t het ypesettersh ada fe wp
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On Aug 3, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
Not to be overlooked are the dozen or so recercars in his books,
they are superb- great concert pieces too.
According to Douglas Alton's Smith's "A history of the lute" this is
a manuscript "Intabolatura" of 1567 preserved in the Bavarian State
Library and possibly a copy of a lost printed work.
It constitutes a cycle of 48 pieces in 2 modes on all twelve scale
degrees starting with G gamut. Each set begins with a passamezzo
antico and saltarello in the minor mode followed by a passamezzo
moderno and saltarello in the major mode. Many of the dances
consist of just a routine series of chords.....although there are
some divisions.....
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