[LUTE] Re: Flow My Tears in G Minor

[Bruno Cognyl-Fournier]

   Seems to me they were both designed to be in A minor, the song
   version being played on an A lute instead...
   Definitely from a hands point of view, the 7 Tears version in A minor
   using a G lute is much more difficult to play..

   2017-11-28 4:11 GMT-05:00 John Lenti <[1]johnle...@hotmail.com>:

Isn't the received wisdom also that none of the g minor Lachrimae
pavans is by Dowland and that only the lute parts of the 7 tears
 show
his handling of the theme as a lute piece?
Except of course that the Lachrimae galliard is in g minor.
H.
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On Nov 28, 2017, at 12:02 AM, howard posner
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wrote:
  On Nov 27, 2017, at 8:02 PM, Edward C. Yong
  <[2][3]edward.y...@gmail.com> wrote:
   Query for the luteverse.
   While Dowland's song Flow My Tears is in A minor, the solo
 version
  is
   in G minor. Is there any reason why
It's not unusual for instrumental versions of songs to be in a
different key from the original, because the song is pitched to
accommodate the voice and the instrumental version is set to
accommodate the hands or maximize the instrument's resonance.
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[LUTE] Re: Flow My Tears in G Minor

[howard posner]

> On Nov 27, 2017, at 8:02 PM, Edward C. Yong  wrote:
> 
>   Query for the luteverse.
>   While Dowland's song Flow My Tears is in A minor, the solo version is
>   in G minor. Is there any reason why

It’s not unusual for instrumental versions of songs to be in a different key 
from the original, because the song is pitched to accommodate the voice and the 
instrumental version is set to accommodate the hands or maximize the 
instrument’s resonance.




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