Thank you - that is very interesting and helpful. Loved the Schmelzer and
some of your other videos especaially the one with the dancers. It is
amazing what's on Youtube! Could spend all night watching them.
Another non sequitur - I was curious to know what sort of church is is
where you are performing. It is rather different in style from English
churches I am familiar with....
Monica
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tayler" <[email protected]>
To: "lute" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:52 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: A Christmas Contrafactum--sources for pizza.
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
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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 -
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