> 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?
I doubt that the number of baroque lute players is increasing. They just happen to be more present in public 8) I for one took up the baroque lute after the renaissance lute because I wanted to play the lute music by Bach, primarily. I discovered that there's much more to the baroque lute than Bach's music. I ended up in putting Bach's on the shelf and finally focusing on the French. That does not imply that I've ceased to play the renaissance lute. I do play it and I enjoy it. Nevertheless, playing the baroque lute has had an impact. My current renaissance epee is a 10c instrument, me focusing on Robert Johnson, Robert Ballard, Nicolas Vallet. Mathias > 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
