Chords and plucking on the viol: Well, there are a few different ways to answer that. The first is that the difference between the lute and the viol would have been much less than it is today. that is, the lute would have played more melodies and the gamba would play more chords. The second is that etymologically, the instruments were considered two sides of the same coin, so "viola" was "string instrument"; viola da mano was the lute (called vihuela in Spanish, viol in other languages) and viola "arco", "gamba" and so on was the same instrument, another way. And then we have the iconographic evidence, some of which may be fanciful of course. For this video, we adapted and recreated some techniques based on contemporaneous sources: Tobias Hume's The First Part of Ayres (1605): the player is asked in The Souldiers Song to aPlay three letters with your Fingers', and in "Harke, Harke" to "Play nine letters with your finger." And in Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624), the players are directed to "pluck the strings with two fingers". Farina in Capriccio stravagante, 1627, directs the violinist to play the violin like a guitar. We also use full bowed harmonies in the style of the lirone on the viol, because the lirone developed out of styles that were already used for the gamba. dt You can see this "lirone" style here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfoPVO4BsM They were a lively bunch, way back when! dt __________________________________________________________________
From: Monica Hall <[email protected]> To: David Tayler <[email protected]> Cc: Lutelist <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] A Christmas Contrafactum Great performance and very interesting - especially the lyrics which seem to have been culled from different parts of the canon. A bit of a non-sequitur but how common was it for the viola da gamba to pluck rather than bow the bass line? What is the evidence is there....is there any? Monica ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tayler" <[1][email protected]> To: "lute" <[2][email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] A Christmas Contrafactum > One of the interesting features of Early Music is the way in which > material was recycled. When I first saw the Contrafactum for > Monteverdi's Chiome d'oro (for Easter), I remember wishing there was > one for Christmas. But then I figured, how hard could it be to write a > Latin version? Pretty hard, as it turns out, so I had a friend help. dt > [1]aP: Claudio Monteverdi: Puer Natus (Chiome d'oro); Voices of Music - > YouTube > > -- > > References > > Visible links > 1. [3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlE0ibIt0s&hd=1 > > Hidden links: > 3. [4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlE0ibIt0s&hd=1 > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlE0ibIt0s&hd=1 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlE0ibIt0s&hd=1 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
