Having spent much happy time on my 11 course lute playing the music of Reusner, Conradi, Kellner, Weichenberger and St. Luc, it dawns on me that we don't really have a good descriptor for the period. It is after the French precieux and Brise styles (but has some elements), brings in more of a cantabile Italian relationship between melody and bass line but doesn't go all the way to the Gallant emphasis on melody (I am sure I have made many a musicologist cringe with my oversimplifications here). Many recordings that include pieces from the period are titled "German Baroque Lute Music", or something similar, but that of course doesn't give a fair geographic representation to the Czech, Silesian, Swedish and Belgian composers. "Transitional" would be a good descriptive term but alas has already been coapted by those funny tuning systems between Renaissance and d minor.
Any ideas? Danny To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
