Hi Steve, perhaps my "inventory", "The Lute Book of Jollas" could be useful? There are about 85 baroque lute pieces - mainly in facsimile form - to me the original writing gives some extra enjoyment.
There is also some music specifically to 10-course baroque lute there; see Bouvier and Pierre Gaultier. The link: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/JollaksenLuuttukirja.pdf Welcome to the d-minor tuning! All the best, Arto On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:13:11 -0700 (PDT), Steve Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > OK, so with all this talk of baroque lute being somewhat easy to play, > I need to do something useful with my 10C baroque lute, once I get a > proper set of strings for D minor tuning. Does anyone have any > recommendations for easy pieces with which to begin-- something easily > accessible, both in terms of laying ones hands on and playing it. I've > checked out the items on Wayne's Baroque Lute tab page and some look > and sound possibly do-able. I'm not an accomplished lutenist on the > ren lute, so ideas for something easy would be most appreciated. > Thanks! > Steve > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: Thomas Walker <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:12 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Mace > Hey all, > Interesting discussion. I have to say, I'm with Sterling & Roman et > al > on this one. I started on renaissance lute (actually, guitar before > that), and D minor baroque lute is still a secondary instrument for > me. > But if you can find the basses (most of us can with some patient > work), there is a vast repertoire that is available, and much easier > than most of Dowland, for instance. > From my perspective, the hardest lute music is Italian, c. 1580-1620. > Piccinini's music, straddling the two epochs, is unrelentingly > difficult. The bass work isn't too bad (even Toccata XX from his 1623 > print doesn't demand too much of one's "thumb radar"), but the left > hand work is brutal. > Zamboni's music for archlute doesn't spend a lot of time below the > 9th > or 10th course (I think most of it you could play on a veil ton 10c > lute), but even as his textures are leaner than Weiss', the left hand > work is considerably more demanding. D minor works! > Cheers, > Tom Walker, Jr. > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
