Can't help you on the philosophical part- seems that the more popular tunes, ballads, etc. -especially the ones that have chord changes or bass lines that became "12 bar blues" or "standards" type material (pass' e mezzi, follia, etc.) may fall into that category, but all the real part songs by the major song writer/composers seem to have been treated more strictly.
Lovely treatment of "Paint it Black" - a little more work and it could be made into a real, Dowland-ish heavy lute song. I am reminded of my own youthful endeavors which resulted in a version of "Norwegian Wood" as a lute solo, and a direct transcription for lute of Dave Van Ronk's "St. Louis Tickle", a fiendishly difficult ragtime guitar solo that I played at an ancient LSA gathering in Rhode Island back in the previous century. Wish I hadn't lost the music and forgotten how to play it- it would be great thing to post. If anyone out there has it, raise your hand! Dan >Dear lutenists, > >after having played and arranged quite a few pieces to lute, one perhaps >interesting idea occurred to my mind: When I work (play or arrange) >pieces that I know already from childhood, years and years before knowing >what the lute is, my attitude is very different to playing and also >arranging, compared to the to me new "early music" pieces: it is >(naturally) much easier to see (=hear) those familiar pieces as "music". > >Well, nothing news or nothing so clever in that, but as far as I >understand, knowing the pieces, and hearing what you know, not exactly >what you really hear, was also the norm in the times of lute >intabulations: When a song is well known to you, you hear it also in an >intabulation that does not "repeat it all"! > >To me for example my carols > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/10_courseLute/Carols/ >and why not also "Paint it black" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuyf4uha8fs >represent pieces I knew by heart years before really knowing what the >"lute" is... :-) -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
