Steve, first of all I'd think about how to convert my 10c into an 11c lute, as there are not exactly many pieces in D minor tuning for 10 courses.
Mathias -----Original-Nachricht----- > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mace-- Not Mace Anymore > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:13:11 +0200 > From: Steve Ramey <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > 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 > > >
