but you are right, this "brushing" connotation can be very misleading :)
JL
----- Original Message -----
From: ""Mathias Rösel"" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:02 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Terminology: brise
"Jaroslaw Lipski" <[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 brisé
which was understood as broken chords.
Mathias
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