Perhaps my reading is keyboard-centric - I often see 'style luthe' referring to a specific keyboard composition technique. JSB used it - holding a note so that the impression of two parts is created. I mean he used the technique - no idea if he used the term. I think its also called complimentary voice-leading? Donnington uses the term 'lute- play' - don't know if that's historical or his coinage.
Like you say, 'style luthe' gets used in wider contexts - until it disappears in a puff of vagueness... Andrew On 1 Dec 2009, at 10:15, David Tayler wrote: > Style Luthe can only mean something that the lute can do that other > instruments cannot, including the harp. Since arpeggios exist in > keyboard music going back to the renaissance, as well as paired > articulation (baroque keyboard players used two fingered scales) > the most likely interpretation for the term is unmeasured preludes > or a type of harmonic structure that is not possible to play on the > keyboard but can be adapted that has to do with the "break" points > of the two hands. A wider context would simply be the overall style > of certain French composers. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
