On 30 Nov 2009, at 13:44, Jaroslaw Lipski wrote: snip
> Harpsichord players wanted to imitate lute playing snip Yes - my amateur understanding is that style luthe is different from brise - in that style luthe was a keyboard composition/perfomance style, in which elements of lute technique were translated into keyboard technique, e.g. holding certain notes in a melodic sequence to fill up the vertical harmony - in the way that lutenists tend to hold notes as long as possible regardless of what their real value may be (or not stop notes - I'm not describing this particularly well but I hope you can figure out what I mean...). As the name would suggest, the aim was to suggest the texture of the lute - typical ornaments, an 'unmeasured' treatment of tempo, etc. Andrew -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
