On 03/10/2011 09:20, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Dear Stuart, Good to hear you're trying the mandora/gallichon. Most of the music is pretty undemanding and also, alas, much is of poor quality. However the Brescianello is, of course, good and there are a few other decent sources of solo music I'd suggest you look at, including : Kloster Metton Ms (91b), which contains more extended works, and Dresden Mus 2701-V-1. Martyn Are these available? Probably the best Mandora/G repertoire is, however, the ensemble music: in particular works by Joseph Zincke (or Zinck) mostly found in the very extensive Eichstat collections are especioally attractive. I included a Serenatta (Sonata) by him for Flauto, Violino, Violoncello (o Fagotto!) and mandora) in a recent concert and it went down very well. The style is not a million miles from the best of that unjustly neglected (and early) proponent of the new six string guitar Von (De) Call.... Is this similar sort of territory as the Hoffman and Giuliani (not the 19th C guitarist!) chamber pieces with mandolino? (And what 's the 'Liuto' in the Giuliani quartets?) Stuart regards Martyn --- On Mon, 3/10/11, Stuart Walsh [1]<[email protected]> wrote: From: Stuart Walsh [2]<[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] mandora/gallichon music (and something modern) To: "Lute Net" [3]<[email protected]> Date: Monday, 3 October, 2011, 0:16 I have loaned the UK Lute Society's mandora (or gallichon,caldechon etc. These other names are much more interesting!). It has a strange sound, quite different from a typical G Renaissance lute or a D minor Baroque lute. Here are a couple of pieces from the Recueil de pieces (18th century) published today by Editions Culture et Civilisation, Bruxelles1979. These pieces are really quite straightforward (until you press the little red 'record' button when ten more wholly uncontrollable fingers sprout into existence) Sicilliana [4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsye2LHEll4 Capriccio [5]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odR_S4ZgVUQ The tuning here is like guitar tuning. So it's a possibility to play modern-ishguitar music - but on a Baroque instrument. The modern guitar has six single strings and tends to avoid open strings and first position. The mandora/gallichon (perhaps a robust and extravert instrument) has double courses (except for the first) and octaves on the two basses. What might modern-ish guitar music sound like played on it? Here's something very 'straight', a Shanty by Martin Butler: [6]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgopnHyYg4o and something a bit more abstract: A Miniature by Michael Stimpson [7]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbG5dQqNAMU Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsye2LHEll4 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odR_S4ZgVUQ 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgopnHyYg4o 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbG5dQqNAMU 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
