Thanks Sam and Everybody Else, Great info and suggestions all! Please keep 'em coming. Thanks again, Tom
> Dear Tom, > > There's a lot of 16th-century consort music for three instruments - > a good place to start would be to look in Brown's "Instrumental > Music Printed Before 1600." You can play along with any of that > repertoire on the lute if you make your own intabulations. Of > course, you can make relatively free intabulations (as in the > Lachrimae), leaving out unplayable voices and possibly adding new > things of your own. > > If you're after something more specific, have a look at Vincenzo > Ruffo "La Gamba in Basso e Soprano" - I could well imagine a lute > fitting into the consort in that piece. > > Good luck! > > Sam > > On 9 September 2012 21:34, Edward Mast <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > Not an answer to your question, but perhaps relevant if playing > part music. When I got back to the lute a few years ago, I went > to our local recorder society meetings to play ensemble music. > What I found is that recorders generally read an octave higher > then notated, so that playing the lute on a top or middle line > put me an octave lower than the recorders, and thus out of place > harmonically. > So, I generally ended up on the bottom, or bass line, which is > not > the most comfortable area on the lute. Also, when playing music > with longer not values, the lack of sustain of the lute compared > to the recorders bothered me a bit. My solution was to learn to > play the recorder. It sounds as if they could loan you an > instrument or two to learn, and if you learn the fingering for > the alto and tenor you can also play the bass and the soprano. I > draw the line at the crumhorn, however! > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 1:12 PM, [2][email protected] wrote: > > I have some friends who have had a recorder ensemble for many > years. > Formerly 4 players. They lost one of their main players > some years ago, > and they would like to re-group as a trio with me > playing Renaissance lute. > They inherited a fine collection of > Renaissance and Baroque recorders, > in all sizes including Bass, > crumhorns, zincs, and even a sakpipa and a > cornemuse from the > founder of the ensemble. > Does anybody have suggestions for > composers and / or specific pieces that > would fit well with 3 > recorders, etc. and lute? Dowland's Lachrimae, perhaps? > (I know > that's 5 parts - but ... leave one out maybe ... ? ) > Thanks in > advance, > Tom > > Tom Draughon > Heartistry Music > > [3]http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html > 714 9th > Avenue West > Ashland, WI 54806 > [4]715-682-9362 > > > > To get > on or off this list see list information at > > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > Sam Chapman > Oetlingerstrasse 65 > 4057 Basel > (0041) 79 530 39 91 > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html > 4. tel:715-682-9362 > 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
