Hille Perl and Lee Santana recenty put out a duo cd of music for viol
and lute/theorbo etc.
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Eleanor Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Eleanor Smith <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: viol and theorbo
To: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 4:50 AM
There is also a Dowland duet for lute and bass viol (if you do end up
taking your lute!) ... it's at the end of one of his lute song books
although I do have a pdf of the original (and my own working edition
of it) if anyone is interested ...
E
Quoting David van Ooijen <[1][email protected]>:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:19 AM, hera caius<[2][email protected]>
wrote:
>> I am searching for some music for renaissance viol and theorbo...
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> A theorbo being a baroque instrument and a renaissance viol a, well,
> renaissance instrument, you'll have to compromise somewhere, but this
> should not distract you in any way from playing beautiful music
> together.
> 16th century music
> Ortiz, but not the diminutions on the four-part madrigals/chansons,
as
> these are not really for theorbe. If you can manage nonetheless, all
> the better for you, obviously. I prefer to play this music on a
> renaissance lute.
> Around 1600
> Simpson is great. As are Italian diminutions by e.g. Rogniniono,
Dalla
> Casa et al. Again, take care with the intabulated polyphony, that can
> be so hard on theorbo. Or bring your renaissance lute as an easy
> escape.
> If your viol player doesn't mind later music, go for Marais and lose
> yourself in his beautiful music.
> Want to go really modern? Abel or C. Ph. E. Bach. So good!
>
> So much to choose from, enjoy!
>
> David
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