Dear list members,
the evidence about Palestrina and the lute suggests not that he
composed on the lute, but that he intabulated his new compositions and
tested them on the lute before releasing them.
The best known reference is a letter from Annibale Capello to Guglielmo
Gonzaga of 18 October 1578 concerning Palestrina intabulating some of
the movements of his Missa Dominicalis. See Jessie Ann Owens, Composers
at Work (1997), p. 309
JG
On 25/02/2010, at 10:59, Sean Smith wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:05 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Martin Shepherd wrote:
Also one has to ask whether Francesco da Milano, brilliant though he
must have been, was actually able to invent extended strict canons
without recourse to mensural notation. Some of his pieces are so
intricately worked that the idea that he composed them "on the lute"
seems ridiculous.
Not so ridiculous once we know that Palestrina composed on the lute.
Did he? It may be in print but I can't picture anyone composing 5 or
more voices on a lute. Then again, maybe it's easier to compose on a
lute what you don't have to perform.
I'll remain sceptical and believe: he wrote some compositions (some
parts of compositions?) w/ his lute but there's no way we can know the
extent of his composing-with-lute practice.
What is the quote which deals with this?
Sean
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