Hello List, concerning the "monster recercar" in Siena Lute Book, (Nr. 129 fol. 62v-66 in the Minkoff ed.). I was wondering if anyone knows if any serious research has been done or is being done to this piece by any accredited scholars? (And I don't mean the mostly faulty attempts by amateurs available on the net.) Its obvious that much of the material in the piece is didactic in nature, making use of a great number of the "licks" (for lack of a better word), that were available to a lute student in ca. 1560. The piece as it stands is quite attractive but faulty in a number of places, and a reconstruction of voice leading, etc. by (a) knowledgeable academic/s would, IMO be highly desirable. And no one has even recorded it yet. Not even on youtube! G.
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