On 21/05/2011 21:47, Monica Hall wrote:
It would do so as soon as it had frets on its neck.
But when did that first happen?
Monica (fretfully).
According to Crawford Young, around 1400. (But the small lute-like
gittern was always (?) fretted).
Stuart
RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 3:57 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: two fifteenth century songs arranged by Eric
Redlinger
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh"
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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
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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