For the Trauerode, if memory serves, you need some chromatic notes.
When I recorded it I tuned my D to C and tuned a few chromatic notes
in the long strings.
Gorgeous music!
Of course it could be for two lautenwerken. Bach had several, along
with a lute and a viol.
dt
At 01:41 PM 6/14/2011, you wrote:
> > Are there any articles/sites about Bach and his use of the lute
> in his cantatas?
>
>Laurens Dreyfus: Bach's Continuo Group. (Harvard University Press,
>1978). It has a chapter 'the Lute'. Summarised it says: no evidence
>apart from Trauerode and St. John. Dreyfus forgot about St. Matthew
>(!). Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor, used lutes ('Colochons') and
>requested the Mayor of Leipzig to buy him four: two for each church,
>as he always had to borrow them for his 'sacred music'.
>
> > Which cantatas do we know that he used the lute in? BWV 198, anything else?
>
>Trauerode (two lutes)
>St. John
>St. Matthew
>
>That's all.
>
>David
>
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