Of course, Jean-Marie, my to obvious omission, but still, the period
coinsiding with the 11/13-c lute repertoire is extremely unfavorable
for the archlute as the solo instrument. Perhaps Italians were still
playing it, but mostly in Italy - vide Arigoni dynasty (no single
piece of music I know, how much I'd like to), and here and there in
Central Europe occasionally too. But remind me a source of genuin
archlute solo music from outside of Itay, please, I'd be gratefull.
French kings, like Louis XIII and Louis XIV were permanently in a
state of wars, but their marchals secured by force or conquered
nothing special, quite contrary to their poets, musicians, painters,
designers, etc. Half of Europe begin speaking French and playing the
French way, including the d-m lute, and as far as in Poland, the
country for a long time culturally binded to everything Italian. In
Danzig - that's far north near Königsberg - you could find any
natinal elemnts - Italian, English, of course German and Polish, but
since some 1630/40 the lute was French with all it's flavors. And
Pierre Gaultier's print of 1638, one of the first with d-m pieces in
it, was copied and known. I doubt Virginia Renata von Gehema had two
instruments - one for her solo French, German and Polish music, and
the other for Albert Arien and protestant hymns, happened to be also
present in her book.
I think we greatly undervalue the importance of the d-m lute in the
present lute world.
J
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On 2008-10-24, at 19:48, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote:
...you forget Piccinini, not the least of all and Melii da
Reggio's "liuto attiorbato" ;-) !
Jean-Marie
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If I remember well, beside of one Pignatelli MS (PL-Kj), the G.A.
Doni MS (IT-Perugia), an incredible P.F. Valentini theori and
continuo MS (Roma), the Gianoncelli print, Zamboni and dalla Casa
(some sort of decadent instrument called 'arcileuto francese'), there
is not much more for an archlute.
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