On 21/05/2011 20:57, Monica Hall wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:36 PM
Subject: [LUTE] two fifteenth century songs arranged by Eric Redlinger
I tried to send this a while ago but it never showed up. Maybe
someone was censoring my some slightly dodgy tuning. Anyway: here is
a shot at a couple of arrangements of fifteenth century songs. The
music is a lot earlier than the earliest known lute music but very
attractive and not difficult technically.
(Probably the lute should be in some arcane temperament...and played
with a plectrum etc etc).
Never mind the tuning - it's nice - but would the lute have been
played polyphonically in the (early) 15th century?
Monica
As Eric Redlinger says in the note quoted below, his arrangements are
'non-historical'. Very little is known about 15th century lute playing
but the iconography always (?almost always) show players using some form
of plectrum. But Paumann (died 1473) is said to have been played
polyphonically.
Stuart
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-L_GXq78QY
Anyone interested can find these ,and similar pieces, here:
http://medievallute.info/pdf/
In an FAQ, Trystero Montevideo (aka Eric Redlinger - thanks to RT for
that) says:
.. the elegance of the counterpoint comes through even in a simple
rendering of these songs,
and in fact this is the primary reason I have chosen to make them
available in this (non-historical) way.
The intabulations included here contain most of the cantus/tenor
structure and incorporate notes from the
countertenor when they are "essential" to the flow of the song (as
in imitative passages, for example)....
Stuart
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