[LUTE] Introduction to early music

2014-12-08 Thread Omer Katzir
Hello fellow music lovers around the world, After a vey successful guitar concert featuring piece from the golden age I was asked for another concert, this time with my lute. So I've started to build a program fit to the modern ear, I've already several pieces (2Xfantasy by Luis Milan, no.1 and

[LUTE] Re: Introduction to early music

2014-12-08 Thread Omer Katzir
Yes. I forgot the most important thing and it's the time period. As I'm going to play on my 7 course I think it should be from around 1400 to 1600 so around the late medieval and renaissance, give or take few years) On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Omer Katzir kome...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

[LUTE] Re: Introduction to early music

2014-12-08 Thread Rainer
Why not dances? They will certainty love Newsidler's Wascha Mesa :) Rainer adS On 08.12.2014 15:12, Omer Katzir wrote: Hello fellow music lovers around the world, After a vey successful guitar concert featuring piece from the golden age I was asked for another concert, this time with my

[LUTE] Re: Narvaez

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Winheld
What lute? You are the proud owner of the very popular Vihuela de Flandes :-D Dan P.S. How do you like not retuning 7 basses every time the key changes? On 12/6/2014 11:38 PM, sterling price wrote: Hi all--Can someone direct me to an English translation of the instructions in the

[LUTE] Re: Introduction to early music

2014-12-08 Thread Sean Smith
Dalza dances are pleasant with a bit of swing that engages the ear. And there are a few frottole in the Dalza book for seeing early songs. Haraytre is perhaps the easiest of Spinacino's late Burgundian settings (book II) and is fairly short in a comfortable key. A little later (20 years or

[LUTE] Re: Introduction to early music

2014-12-08 Thread Christopher Wilke
I agree with Rainer. For folks not used to early music, l dances make for a very accessible introduction. Audiences enjoy things like the Dalza suites, Attaingnant dances, etc. Even a greatest hit like Dowland's Lachrimae is a dance. Usually, phrases are fairly regular in dances