How about just calling it "late 11-course literature"? ...just a thought: inclusive of anything up to and including Kellner, exclusive of 13 course literature (which encompasses most Galant?) trj
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Shoskes <dshos...@mac.com> To: BAROQUE-LUTE <baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sun, Sep 12, 2010 8:37 am Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Post French and Pre Weiss: what shall we call it? Having spent much happy time on my 11 course lute playing the music of Reusner, Conradi, Kellner, Weichenberger and St. Luc, it dawns on me that we don't really have a good descriptor for the period. It is after the French precieux and Brise styles (but has some elements), brings in more of a cantabile Italian relationship between melody and bass line but doesn't go all the way to the Gallant emphasis on melody (I am sure I have made many a musicologist cringe with my oversimplifications here). Many recordings that include pieces from the period are titled "German Baroque Lute Music", or something similar, but that of course doesn't give a fair geographic representation to the Czech, Silesian, Swedish and Belgian composers. "Transitional" would be a good descriptive term but alas has already been coapted by those funny tuning systems between Renaissance and d minor. Any ideas? Danny To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
