Stefan's music is very good in fact, and thoroughly modern.
I'd add to that a distinction that it is MODERNIST, but NOT CONTEMPORARY
in style and character. His non-lutenistic works are far more contemporary
in character.
The actual contemporary idiom is either eschewing all notion of discernible
pitch and rhythm
(and thus utterly unsuitable for our instruments), or post-Minimalist (like
that Russian woman
composer in Australia who wrote for theorbo, her name escapes me).
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "sterling price" <spiffys84...@yahoo.com>
To: "wikla" <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>; <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 7:11 PM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: New music to d-minor tuning?
There is the fine music of Stefan Lundgren for baroque lute written in a
modern
style.
Sterling
----- Original Message ----
From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:04:51 PM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] New music to d-minor tuning?
Dear d-minor gang,
just for checking: is there any new music to the d-m-baroque tuning?
This time I am not interested the anchronistic movement of composing "new
baroque music" (really sorry Roman!), neither I am interested in the
"ethninic" arrangements of (perhaps?) imagined folk songs (again, sorry
Roman).
So, is that wonderful instrument we adore (=tuning) going to survive
without new and clever music composed?
I guess not.
Arto
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