For me, the "lute" started with the Segovia selection of "Six Lute
Pieces of the Renaissance" that he pilfered from the Oscar Chilesotti
transcription- curiously enough already put into octave treble clef
"guitar" notation- and for an "E" instrument. Then individual movements,
some from "lute" suites, by Bach- played, of course, by guitarists. When
Bream came along, that totally sealed the deal. I then got some lute
arrangements of Dowland by Karl Scheidt and my poor guitar teacher gave
up on me. At the Accademia Musicale Chigiana (S?) back in the 1960's
Alirio Diaz gave his seal of approval to my first "intabulation"-
"Sleep, Mine Eyes" by Thomas Morley. I didn't even know the word- just
saw that a lovely 3 part madrigal could fit on guitar type instrument.
One of my fellow guitar students predicted that I would come back one
day with "one of those things with a million strings on it."
Dan
On 8/12/2013 6:12 AM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote:
I'll bet some large fraction (at least in the U.S.) of lute players,
professional or avocational, got turned on by the 1960's Julian Bream album
"An Evening of Elizabethan Music." Even though he was playing a
heavily-constructed, inauthentic "LSO" (Lute-Shaped Object) the artistry and
the musical content were there. We should take some sort of poll.
I got the LP in 1966, and my first student lute in 1980, so I only waited 14
years....
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Geoff Gaherty
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 7:32 AM
To: lute
Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness - astronomy analogy?
On 12/08/13 2:46 AM, William Samson wrote:
Sadly, I suspect that 'sidewalk lutenists' wouldn't attract the same
queues as sidewalk astronomers. Even I, as a lutenist, have a much
clearer recollection of my first view of Saturn's rings through a
telescope than I have of first hearing a lute.
As a matter of fact, I once saw this "sidewalk lutenist" in a piazza in
Venice:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53488562/lutenist%20in%20Venice.jpg
He was drawing quite a crowd, in fact. This was on a tour of Italy
following the March 31 2006 solar eclipse in Jalu, Libya. A friend saw him
a couple of months ago there, and he's now selling CDs, just as someone here
suggested.
I can't remember when I first _heard_ a lute, probably when I bought a
Julian Bream LP of lute music, but I have a vivid memory of first _seeing_ a
lute (actually a lute guitar), in a Montreal music store window at the age
of 17 or 18. It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to own and play
one, though it was 20 years later that I achieved that.
Geoff
--
Geoff Gaherty
Foxmead Observatory
Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
http://www.gaherty.ca
http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
