I love Bakfark's music, but it gets way too little play by professionals, and I can't really make any of it sound convincing myself. While I can't provide technical advice here, I may be able to point you to some inspiration. Heringman did an excellent CD entitled The Black Cow, half of which was given to Bakfark intabulations, fantasias, and the like, the other half to Polish dances by Waissel. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Cow-Valentin-Matthaus-Heringman/dp/B0000258EM
Luck! Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Eugene Kurenko > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 10:14 AM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] A question about Bakfark's lute music > > Hello to everybody! > > This day I had some interest in difficult music for renaissance lute > and had dicovered some intabulations by Bakfark. > > And almost went crazy. Most of them seems for me as "bloody hell" and > almost impossible to play in tempo. > > I mean this for example: > > [1]http://www.lute.ru/gerbode/ft2/composers/Bakfark/pdf/douce_memoire.p > df > > [2]http://www.lute.ru/gerbode/ft2/composers/Bakfark/pdf/czarna_krowa.pd > f > > Some chord progressions has very awkward fingerings, wide transitions > for left hand. And in addition to this - very complex rhythm, polyphony > up to 4 and sometimes 5 voices. > > Do you have any suggestions how one can play this on one lute? > > Thanks in advance! > > Eugene. > > -- > > References > > 1. > http://www.lute.ru/gerbode/ft2/composers/Bakfark/pdf/douce_memoire.pdf > 2. > http://www.lute.ru/gerbode/ft2/composers/Bakfark/pdf/czarna_krowa.pdf > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
