Yes, And as mentioned earlier, the melodic importance of 'brise' is evident when one looks at works such as those by von Radolt.
MH --- On Mon, 30/11/09, "Mathias Roesel" <[email protected]> wrote: From: "Mathias Roesel" <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Terminology: brise To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 30 November, 2009, 14:02 "Jaroslaw Lipski" <[1][email protected]> schrieb: > Obviously we can use this term providing we know its meaning and origin. The > problem is that for a very long time people were using it thinking that this > is how the style of some French baroque lute players was described in past. > Harpsichord players wanted to imitate lute playing, but in general these are > not the terms that lute players used in Baroque (at least we know nothing > about it). Besides I really don't know why we so desperately need a name for > the style. Giving the name doesn't add anything to it. It did add something, viz. arpegiated _chords_ over and over again in many recordings. When I for the first time listened to French baroque lute music in the mid-80ies, I thought, wow, there was jazz as early as in the 17th century! Yet I simply couldn't understand what this music was all about. Arpeggiated chords, that's all? Telling from available recordings, I would never have guessed that it's all about melody. One of the reasons why players used to play this music in shapes of broken chords all over IMHO is that there was a name coined style brise which was understood as broken chords. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
