> I think it was last year at the seminar in Cleveland that Andy > Rutherford had what he called his 'Mace' lute. It was a very charming > 12 course lute based on what Mace describes and also on half of the > dyophone(sp?) lute shown in Mace's book. > --Sterling
Nice coincidence! One of the last Lute News had a whole section on Mace, with David van Edwards and comrades-in-timbers sporting their latest model, a double-headed 12c lute (body after Venere, IIRC). I myself chose the Wolff lute in Füssen for a copy, as its VSL of 63 cm allows for Mace's tuning with the 1st course = g'. Mace is a patient and thorough teacher, who never forgets to cheer up his students, explaining each and every detail of possible postures, RH and LH fingerings, ornaments, humours of different pieces and so on. I can very well imagine why and how prof players to-be learned to play the lute from his book still in Handel's days! Mathias > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 3:13:35 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mace > > > > May I say that I've learned a lot from Thomas Mace's book as regards > French and English music of nthe 1620ies through 1670ies. And I > particularly enjoyed his music which I perceived as a blend of French > texture and English folk tunes. > > His tuning allows you to play all of that sophisticated music with so > many accidentaly (at least in the CNRS editions) in simple keys with > no or not more than one accidentals. > > Even partbooks with Mace's tuning have survived in the Bodleian > iibrary. Nice consort music, or so I've read in an article by Rob > MacKillop. > > Mathias (from Tunisia) > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
