Thanks for posting this. You continue to bring our attention to interesting music with your fine performances.
How much of the piece did you play? Thanks again for the music! -- Rocky On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:04 PM, WALSH STUART wrote: > This is a shot at an opening chunk of 'Par la bande' written for Nigel North. > The complete piece lasts for over 10 minutes. It is based on the first few > bars of a Bach sarabande but in a 'roundabout' way. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HgUn0kCjGE > > Howard Skempton is usually described as a miniaturist and some of his pieces > are shorter than a minute. For some reason, for this piece, Skempton wrote at > much greater length. The music is in standard notation with bass and treble > clefs. The music goes down to a low A and is presumably intended for the D > minor, 13-course lute. Putting the music up a fourth brings it back to its > original D minor and fits a Renaissance lute (with at least one extra bass) > surprisingly well. > > Stuart > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
