Do you mean like how a good lute player can bring out certain notes to
make the polyphony more clear? A good reference would be the columns
of Ronn McFarlane in the LSA's quarterlys for the last year or two.
Ronn is a master at nuances of touch and expression.
Suzanne
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>
> The strings of a lute all have approximately the same
> timbre, so that lute music is polyphonic and monotimbral.
>
> In contrast, there is much early music which is polyphonic
> and MULTItimbral (ensemble music).
>
> Is it possible, using music theory or other methodology,
> to analyze whether practitioners of lute music accomodate
> the instrument's monotimbral quality, and to describe
> the details of how the accomodation works?
>
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