Sean: Thanks for the suggestion, and I really should try my hand at in tabulating some simple 3 or 4 voice works. But when I have tried arranging even just 3 voices on lute, it feels rather like trying to sleep 3 adults in a child's bed; I've never gotten comfortable with the results- Cheers, ted jordan -----Original Message----- From: Sean Smith <[email protected]> To: lute <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2019 1:49 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Arcadelt Theoj89294, Jacob Arcadelt is wonderful composer to try your hand at transcribing vocal works if you don't see them elsewhere. The thinner textured French pieces are easier to work with and were even considered acceptable on the 4-course guitar. With one of the 4-c intabs of this piece and the vocal original you fill it out more thoroughly on the lute since there were inevitably some corners cut. Let Adrian, Albert and Melchior do the harder 4-part material of Crequillon, Sandrin and Rogier but there's a lot to learn from Arcadelt precisely because it's easier to work with. If it gets too easy why not try filling it out with passaggi, writing a second part, or even singing the vocal line? (some other things musicians did beside play a composer's notes on the page). The 5th of the Adrian LeRoy 4-course guitar books has a lot of Arcadelt set for voice and guitar but they are easily transcribed for lute. See also Arcadelt's O felici occhi miei in Ortiz 1553 for ideas on decorating a Cantus or adding a new line altogether. Personally, I find his French pieces a relief after his more difficult Italian vocal works. His Italian madrigals can be a handful (See Vindella's 1546 work dedicated to JA) but he had a solid lute following in any event and pieces like Cosi mi guida were very popular. All I'm trying to say is that Arcadelt is a good vocal composer to work with for 16th century lutenists, then and now. my 2c, Sean On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:54 AM Rainer <[1][email protected]> wrote: Should be "nous voyons que les hommes". According to Brown there are two intabulations for guitar - a bit thin for the lute. Rainer Am 05.11.2019 um 23:42 schrieb [2][email protected]: > Lutetopia: > Does anyone know if there is an in tabulation of the Arcadelt chanson > "nous voyons ques les hommes"? (It is a charming little tune). Thanks > trj > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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