Dear folks, a couple of days ago I played 3 anonymous 11-course lute pieces to the "tubes" in the idea of "croquis" they use in practising drawing. Or as Wikipedia says it:
"Croquis drawing is quick and sketchy drawing of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn." I just happened to have one page of a lute book open in a certain place, and decided to record those nice and not too complicated looking pieces to the "tubes". Just a couple of look throughs and fingering thoughts, and then to the recording... The three pieces are anonymous and come from ms. Berlin 40068: Allemande(f.19r), Courrente(f.18v) and Sarabande(f.19v). Just in case you are interested in my certainly unpolished (and raw?) versions, you can find them in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJFmU75WlU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJAmiqV6s-4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpyHeSO5BU Or if you prefer Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/9130317 http://www.vimeo.com/9130629 http://www.vimeo.com/9130951 What do you think this kind of "fast music"? To me many musicians of the "classic" front (in the common meaning of the word "classic") often are so deadly serious of every nyance and "spot of ink" in the written music that the joy and "everydayness" of the music disappears... Of course music is "divine". But it is also much more... :-) 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
