Very nice - just the thing for post Christmas cheer. Like the picture and
the captions too!
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "WALSH STUART" <[email protected]>
To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:33 PM
Subject: [LUTE] 13th century clausula: Regnat (edited by Marc Lewon) played
as gittern duo
I found this little piece on (medievalist) Marc Lewon's website a few years
ago. It was in a document - written in German - accompanying a course that
Marc Lewon led in 2006.
I don't speak German and, as clausulae are sacred vocal works, it might
be the case that Marc Lewon was just giving this piece as an illustration
of the music of the time. But Britannica online has this: "In the clausula
the late-medieval, dance-influenced system of rhythmic modes found its
first systematic application." So I'm guessing that Marc Lewon saw this as
a possible source of instrumental music. After all, a lower line of a
chunk from a chant with a faster moving top line seems to have been
popular throughout the medieval period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jc4gSvkDZ0
Stuart
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