Dear Jorge and the list On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:04:29 -0500, Jorge Torres <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone studied/played the Lully transcriptions that exist for d > minor lute. Does anyone know if they have been indexed? And does > anyone know if there are examples of names associated with the > arrangements (identified arrangers).
As far as I know there is no index of this repertoire - at least I have not found any... I suppose some researchers have considered these arrangements of lesser value than all the Courantes and Preludes there are... ;-) Anyhow, I think the importance of Lully to his contemporaries was so big and also the quality of his music so good that we really should be more interested also in those lute arrangements! And I am... ;-) My tiny "2009 project" was to try to find out something about French theorbo music of 17th century. In my page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Tiorba/deVisee/ I have some music of Lully transcribed to therbo (pdf) and also the Lully models (pdf) (and some "tube" performances of varying quality, too). One problem with Lully is his huge output! But you can find lots of his stuff in the Net, if you try... ;-) To find out the models of the arrs can be quite time consuming, though... Back to 11-courser: There seems to be quite a lot of arrs of his pieces there! Just scattered here and there... One good example is ms. Milleran, where there are several arrs of Lully by "mr Mouton". So there _are_ name associations. Those Milleran arrs really are quite simple compared to Mouton's other stuff. But who knows? I have also "tubed" one of those, "Menuet de L'Opera de Proserpine, transposee par Mr Mouton", in my page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/ Or direct links http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/ and http://www.vimeo.com/8933482 Anyhow I have seen in many 11-course mss. links to Lully. So there is work to be done! One achievement of hard work - that really will help - is done by Peter Steur in his "Manuscripts for Baroque Lute - A Catalogue". He also here and there gives the "Lully numbers" of those transcriptions. See his pages in http://mss.slweiss.de/ It really is not only about Weiss! (Thanks for your valuable work, Peter, if you happen to read this!) So: If you find an index, or even some more analysis, I am highly interested! 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
