Yes, good point, "style brise" is a modern term. It's better to use "style
luthe" instead if we really have to use anything at all.
JL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Probert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:34 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Terminology: brise
The recent thread on Saint Luc brought up the term "brisé" (final
e-accute) that I had not read before. So I went to Groves and found
that "Style brisé" refers to a broken appeggiation style, which, in
reference to early French Baroque lute music, I am familiar with.
Interestingly, that term, "Style brisé", can't be traced back further
than 1928 and one La Laurencie's "Les luthistes" (Paris, 1928).
Apparently, back in the day, Couperin referred to the technique as
'luthé'. Thing is, he was referring to harpsichordists using the lute
style, not a lutenist using that style.
So now we are describing a lute technique using a keyboard style name
that was originally used to describe a lute style. Excellent!
. mark
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