Lemme try to clarify this. Split sound is when the sounds of different ensemble members do not blend, that's all. I think we can all agree by and large with the following:
The medieval hofkapelle at the Burgundian court consisted of single musicians who would do their best to get heard distinctly (the lute being played with quills therefore). That's split sound (spaltklang). As opposed to that, renaissance musicians preferred to play ensemble music with families of instruments (flutes, viols, lutes) so as to make the music sound as though one big instrument was at work. That's not split sound, it's merging sound (schmelzklang). Musicians of broken consorts usually played as single members of their bands, trying to be heard as well as possible. Like in Burgundia, that is split sound. It's an integral part of baroque rhetorics of music (klangrede). Orchestras from the Twenty-Four Violins of the King onward started another development, viz. merging the sounds of several instruments of the same type, and blending the sounds of groups of instruments (wood wind, strings, brass etc), resulting in 19th century orchestra aesthetics (mischklang). Surviving lute music dates from the renaissance through rococo periods. The HIP lute was a solo instrument, an ensemble instrument, but never an orchestra instrument. So, one might argue that if lute players followed the general aesthetics of their respective era, renaissance lute players probably tried not to stand out when playing in ensemble, whereas later broken consort lutenists would try to stand out as much as possible. Which would explain why renaissance lutenists' propensity of playing near the rose, and the shift from 1600 onward to the bridge. Mathias "thomas schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I've read it's the 20th century and german version of what we know as style > brisé (just in case nobody else has already mentioned). > > Thomas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:58 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute sound / split sound > > > >I thought Spaetklang was when you can't keep the tempo. > > > > > > d > > > > > > At 02:08 AM 9/30/2008, you wrote: > >> And Splatklang is when you don't quite manage to play that difficult > >> chord.... > >> > >> P To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
