> I might have very slightly violated the rules of serial > composition
Oh dear, we have a serial killer in our midst! There must be serial-police for this kind of thing. ;-) It's remarkable how transposing a piece often takes away some of the instrument-specific characteristics. Your serial piece doesn't sound particularly lutenistic to me, but neither does it sound guitaristic. It's a kind of abstract music anyway. I often play Poulenc's Sarabande for guitar on lute, as I think it can feel very lute-like by exploiting the tone colour of the instrument (without the original shifts in position that work so well on guitar, btw). Some of the movements from Poulenc's piano suite with dances from Gervaise (can't remember it's called) I arranged for lute as well, and pair them with the 'original' dances. Here I feel the dissonances work quite well on lute; they don't feel gratuitous to me. ;-) Btw, love your videos, but hope you removed the garden ornament; poor black tit. These birds can really fight themselves to exhaustion and die, when confronted with a mirror image or even statue. David ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
