Hi lute gang, to me the reasons to publish more or less unpolished lute performances in the Net have been very, very varying!
[The following history and the links to the pieces can be seen in http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/own/videos.html] In the beginning, April 2008, I just found some old (analogy tape) videos, a way to make them digital, and publish them; some stuff from years 1992 to 2000. Did not think much, what I am doing. Then I found out I can use my digital pocket camera to make videos, too. And the first take happened to be a proof to RT that I am not anti-Ukranian, I recorded some folk music arr's by him. :-) It worked. I became eager to make my own arrangements: Tarantellas, song intabulations, Biber's Passagalia, Christmas carols, etc. And to show that those are playable, I also made tube versions to show, where to begin, and play it better. Then I started working with theorbo/chitarrone solos after years of continuo playing. Especially interesting was to be the French stuff, and especially especially Lully arrengements made in Lully's time. I put the tabs and also many of the original models by Lully to the Net. This was open propaganda for Lully's music. Then - after years of neglecting I found the "transitional tunings". Great stuff it was! But it also transferred me quickly to the d-minor tuning - as it did also the 17th century lutenists! ;-) And there also was one very critical comment, very well formulated, by a certain "62Konrad", which made me want to find a better recording machine - better soundwise. So during last month I've been testing nearly everything - and still put it in the Net... Of course each of us, who write or send music to the net, know that the stuff will be there for ever. And a certain "Narcissos" factor cannot be denied... ;-) And of that: my today's piece is "Les Tricotins - Gavotte", a medley of two versions of the same(?) piece: Les Tricotins (ms. Milleran, f.29v), and Gavotte (ms. Kalmar 21068, f.2r): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVzZmX4BzI All the best, ;-)) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
