I will play any music on lutes, if it works for that lute. I believe in
using the right tool for the job-- unlike guitarists and pianists who
endeavor to build the whole house with just a hammer.
My question-- do most lute players only specialize in one repertoire? I
play any lute music from almost the entire history of the lute-- except
medieval. Of course this requires multiple lutes, which I'm happy to
collect and play. I go through phases, like sometimes all I want to do
is play six course music; then all of a sudden baroque lute is all I
care about in life. Right now I'm obsessed with the liuto attiorbato
which I think is the most versatile of all lutes. If for some reason I
had to have only one lute, it would be an attiorbato. One can play
hundreds of years worth of music on it(in a pinch) I'm working on my
version of 'Georga on my Mind' at present. My attiorbatos have a range
of 5 octaves.
Sterling
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-------- Original message --------
From: Leonard Williams <arc...@verizon.net>
Date: 3/16/18 3:00 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some questions
I, myself, was attracted to the lute, via recorders and other
early
instruments, because I like playing renaissance music. What better
way
to enjoy it than on the instruments for which it was written? If I
were an instructor, I would probably be more inclined to teach
guitarists to read lute-tabbed recercari than to play later music on
the lute.
Leonard
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From: Mathias.Roesel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de>
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Fri, Mar 16, 2018 2:28 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some questions
Everybody is free to do with their lutes, or should be so, what they
like best.
Gilbert's initial observation was, though, that some 90% of this
tiny
community don't seem to be interested in newly composed music for
the
lute. And I take it that he wasn't referring to the lute mailing
list
community exclusively, but to lute loving folks in general. They're
fully entitled, aren't they, to not be interested. And I hasten to
add
that I myself refuse to get involved in lute religious discussions
about whether or not lutes should be taken to play modern music. I
for
one prefer to pick up the guitar for such purposes.
Mathias
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Von: Wayne
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Some questions
Datum: 16.03.2018, 18:01 Uhr
An: lute net
One thing that has not been mentioned is that we have choices - we
all,
or most of us, or some of us, can choose to play a certain part of
our
repertoire on our Les Paul/Marshall, or our classical guitar, or our
romantic guitar, or our bandora, or ukulele or even saxophone or
synth
in some cases. If we can choose to play Spanish music on our vihuela
we
can choose to play Babbit on our (analogue tube) synth. So maybe we
are
overlooking contemporary lute music because we tend to pick up a
different instrument to play something modern. Especially when we
need
to be as loud as everyone else.
Does anyone here not have or play any instrument at all but the
lute?
Wayne
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>
> From: WALSH STUART <[2][1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some questions
> Date: March 16, 2018 at 12:26:07 PM EDT
>
> If it seems odd to want to play modern music on a lute it is
surely
odder to only play a lute and only ever to play music that was
composed
centuries ago.
>
> Perhaps no one is odd enough for that! If there were such a person
-
who would only, ever, play centuries' old music (however gem-laden
it
may be) - would it be enough to say that this choice was the
harmless
choice of a free being?
>
> There is no obvious harm to others in such a case but perhaps it's
a
case of self-harm.
>
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