On 08/01/2012 12:53, Monica Hall wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: [LUTE] 15th century dance: Anello (lute/gittern duo)
Very nice too - but it seems to me that you could dance to just the
single line. The lute does sound a bit bumpy in the recording.
Where does the picture come from?
Yes, the lute isn't so good! I was wholly focused on the gittern and the
rough lute playing maybe makes the gittern sound better. In fact I'm
much more confident playing fingerstyle lute than anything with a
plectrum. But I do like the sound of a plectrum. It's another colour to
play with.
There seems to be lots of evidence of lute duos (inc lute and gittern)
in the 15th century and it's fascinating to speculate what kind of
things they (not the internationally famed virtuosi!) may have played.
Maybe dances -just for listening, or for small numbers of dancers?
In the arrangement I played, the tune was the top line of the lute part.
The top line, the gittern part was composed by Ian Gatiss. (And Ian was
very keen to have people evolve their own lines. But that's quite a
task!). There is another dance tenor, Giloxia, which is quite a strong
tune in itself but Ian nevertheless thought that it would have had a
fancier line above and a simple bass part below. I don't know what the
issues are!
I pinched the picture from google images, which turns out to be from
gutenberg thingy, so presumably copyright free. Actually I didn't know
that until I looked just now.
http://www.clipart-history.com/index.php?id=791&pic=9615
And you can see I've cropped out the actual musicians in the image,
playing a transverse flute and a drum. I thought -and still think -
that this is modern pastiche but the website says its from 1493!
Stuart
You must have a whole house full of instruments - a veritable
museum! All I have is a baroque guitar and a "vihuela" which is now
unplayable, I feel quite deprived.
Monica
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