We did some of his songs in a concert last november, you can watch it on Youtube La voila la nacelle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOZ3BpU0vE Beaux yeux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-0LRd6HCo
Quelle divinite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtlZaK37Hzw Si c'est pour mon pucellage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQxfg7IH14U Greet -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: E. Agulló [mailto:eagu...@wanadoo.es] Verzonden: zaterdag 31 januari 2009 22:59 Aan: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Onderwerp: [LUTE] Jean-Baptiste Besard Hello, I've read a bit from "Oeuvres pour luth seul de J.-B. Besard" Edition CNRS ). I find this music interesting and I think that I will continue with my reading. A fast search on the web, gave almost no CDs with Besard's lute pieces. Only a few dances in collective programmes, but it seems that nobody has made a whole Besard recording. Is anybody from this list familiar with this composer ? In the preface of the book there is a study "Sur la musique de Besard" written by André Souris ): he explains with examples that the writing of Besard is sometimes very "anarchic", with strange jumps of octave ( and this happens on the upper voice, the "superius" ), chords offbeat, parallel fifths, dissonances without resolution, etc. What do you think of all this ? I see in the ( complex, virtuoso ) tablature that he was a great professional of the lute. This is not a bad work made by a beginner or an amateur. Then, can we think of errata in the printing of the tablatures ? Or perhaps he played several pieces with a secret scordatura ? I find everything intriguing. If anybody has read carefully this music, and has worked on it ( for recital, or studio recording, etc ), I would like to know his/her point of view. A last question: It seems that Besard was an appreciated composer in his time ( his pieces were copied in manuscripts preserved nowadays in several libraries )...how is possible that nobody programmes his music today ? Thanks for your attention, Eduard V. Agulló To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
