Very interesting final comment. I sometimes have the impression that the seventeenth century is happening all over again, with more and more people taking up baroque lute, baroque guitar, theorbo etc and leaving the renaissance lute behind. Is it simply too hard?
P On 30 March 2011 13:59, Ron Andrico <[1][email protected]> wrote: Yes, of course jazz standards will work on lute, either in old tuning or in d-minor tuning. The point in playing effective jazz guitar is not just playing triad harmonies (always altered) but voice leading. Listen to old recordings by Dick McDonough and the player who took up where he left off, George Van Eps. The latter spent his entire productive life demonstrating that improvisation with good voice leading in four parts was not only possible but the standard by which idiomatic playing translates into good music you want to hear. That is why playing - and writing - polyphony is the best way to wrap your head around how any music fits on the lute. Face it, guitar is easier to play, and block chords are simpler to understand. This is why so many guitarists seem to gravitate toward music for baroque lute with its simpler treble - bass construction. Ron Andrico [2]www.mignarda.com -- Peter Martin 24 The Mount St Georges Second Avenue Newcastle under Lyme ST5 8RB tel: 0044 (0)1782 662089 mob: 0044 (0)7971 232614 [3][email protected] -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.mignarda.com/ 3. mailto:[email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
