I listened to the videos of the performer talking about the 2 pieces I mentioned below and learned some interesting things. The piece "RunSten....and Varin said", by Michael Atherton, was set into tablature by the composer, because the composer PLAYs the lute. I think this makes a difference and is probably a reason I thought these pieces effective.
In the video about "Bakers Dozen", the performer talked about making decisions about where to play notes on the theorbo, so as to either have, or not have, overlapping sounds, etc. He implied that he in fact did the intabulation for these pieces. So this composer wrote the music in staff notation, and left those decisions to the intabulator/performer. Suzanne -------------- Original message from "Suzanne and Wayne" <[email protected]>: -------------- > This is interesting. I'm heartened, in light of our recent discussion > that seemed to show the near lack of women composers in the past, that > 2 of the 4 composers selected for this project were women. > I'm not really a fan of "contemporary" music, but I found 2 of the > compositions worthy of the time to listen to. While all 4 used the > "modern" way of making sounds using "extended techniques" on the > instrument, I found "RunSten....and Varin said" and "Bakers Dozen" to > have melodic and harmonic interest. Perhaps its true that some of this > could be thought of as similar to modern guitar music, but then > considering that there aren't many models of modern lute music, that > seems like a reasonable place to start for a composer who doesn't play > lute. > Thanks for posting this link. I found it very interesting to explore. > Suzanne > > -------------- Original message from Peter Martin > : -------------- > > Hey, you hordes of contemporary lute music fans. Have a look at > The > > Lute Project at [1]http://www.abc.net.au/classic/lute/default.htm > > > > > > > > The Australian ABC broadcasting company commissioned four > composers to > > write works for lute or theorbo, which were performed live by > Tommie > > Andersson at last year's Aurora Festival. The site has videos of > the > > concert plus interviews with the composers. Well worth a look. > > > > > > > > P > > > > > > > > -- > > > > References > > > > 1. http://www.abc.net.au/classic/lute/default.htm > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- >
