I enjoy your playing of this very nice piece of Brian Wright very much
Stuart. It's wonderful that you are so open-minded and interested in
contemporary lute music.
Gilbert
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:09 PM
Subject: [LUTE] lute piece by Brian Wright (and fret n)
In the latest Music Supplement to Lute News, nestling between
formidable-looking fantasias by Diomedes on one side and an even more
formidable-looking Bach transcription for Baroque lute on the other, is
a piece by Brian Wright.
This is unusual territory for a lute, I think. It's not technically
difficult. Well, there are no fast runs nor tricky rhythms.But it does
use very high positions, including fret n, the twelfth fret. I've always
thought I had a decent lute but my fret n is almost a pitchless plink.
The music also calls for fret l on the fifth course and the maker of my
lute hasn't extended the little wooden fret to cover the fifth course.
And I don't think I've ever had need of it.
(On a guitar, at the twelfth fret one might be thinking of apoyando and
ripe vibrato but presumably this situation is different)
So I wonder what other people's lute sounds like at n on the first
course? I'm happy enough with my first course (sounds like a meal...) up
to l but thereafter, not a lot is happening.
Here's a go at it (with some mangly bits that really stick out in this
context)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72Hhwk-a7k
Stuart
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