On the subject of lutenists accommodating (or not) singers:
Is there any evidence of what temperament the lutenist and singer - I'm thinking mainly of late 16th c lute songs - would have agreed on? Would the lutenist tune to get close to the temperament the singer had trained to sing in (just intonation?) - or would the singer helpfully adjust to suit the tending-towards-ET lute accompaniment? Or does it just work with voice and lute in different temperaments? I've never been clear about this...
Andrew On 15 Feb 2009, at 07:52, David Tayler wrote:
Dowland transposed all the time--except he put the music into a MORE difficult key. dt
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