It depends on the player
MH
--- On Sun, 31/10/10, Suzanne Angevine <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Suzanne Angevine <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] OT: Baroque Guitar technique
To: "Lute List" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 31 October, 2010, 16:20
Last night I heard a very nice concert of mostly Baroque guitar. This
is not an instrument I have any experience on, so I have a question.
While the music was played with great style and expressiveness, I
noticed some things that in a lute player I would not think that good.
Things like squeeks, and twangs, and notes that in the contrapuntal
texture were inappropriately loud or soft. Now I know on lute that it
takes a fine degree of excellence, such as Paul O'Dette, to play
without these things, and to bring out the essence of the music
clearly. I also know from my own limited amateur abilities that it is
much easier to hear what you *want* to hear, how you think the music
should go, than it is to hear how you're actually playing. So my
question is this: Is it technically harder for some reason to play
contrapuntal style pieces on Baroque guitar than Ren lute? It seems
the real strength of the Baroque guitar in modern usage is loud
strumming as part of a continuo group, and at this it is clearly
excellent. But I've not heard so many people play serious solo pieces
on the instrument.
Suzanne
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