[LUTE] Re: Monteverdi 1610 Vespers Et Misericordia

2014-12-30 Thread Monica Hall
But it is a double or triple canon surely with the high and low vocies alternating and all six voices coming together in the last phrase. I believe this is very common in late 16th century sacred polyphony e.g. Victoria often does this in the last phrase of the Agnus Dei. Whether the

[LUTE] Re: Monteverdi 1610 Vespers Et Misericordia

2014-12-30 Thread Christopher Wilke
This is the sort of thing organists would have intabulated (i.e. made a reduced score that roughly doubles the voices in a simplified way). An older, but still valuable summary article is Imogene Horsley's Full and Short Scores in the Accompaniment of Italian Church Music in the Early Baroque

[LUTE] Re: Monteverdi 1610 Vespers Et Misericordia

2014-12-30 Thread Geoff Gaherty
On 2014-12-30 9:27 AM, Christopher Wilke wrote: The Kurtzman edition of the Vespers includes a keyboard realization in this style that may (or may not) serve as a I've found most keyboard realizations useless for lute. The way keyboards play chords is completely different from the way lutes

[LUTE] Re: Monteverdi 1610 Vespers Et Misericordia

2014-12-30 Thread howard posner
On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:20 PM, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com wrote: Usually I'm tacet there, but the occasional conductor does asks for uncle Theo. And does that include avuncular accompaniment in the parts that are for higher voices only? To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Historical Protestant music.

2014-12-30 Thread Daniel F. Heiman
Herb: No, it cannot be summarized briefly. Would you care to narrow the focus of your question a bit? Daniel -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Herbert Ward Sent: 29 December, 2014 23:15 To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject:

[LUTE] Re: Historical Protestant music.

2014-12-30 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Herbert, there were no early music performances in those days, and so there was no Catholic or Protestant support to these in your 1520-1648. So it was not possible to support any historical performance either. Perhaps you could clear your question? Arto On 31/12/14 02:58, Daniel F.