Dear baroque lute friends, just hours ago I managed to finish my trip to the f-minor key, by playing a suite written(?) to the poor (of course not economically!) young Lord Danby The young Lord was perhaps just leaving either Hannover or Hamburg, when his (French?) lute teacher wrote a small suite to this youngster to make him feel missed and thus kind of happy and melancholic... But who knows... :-)
Anyhow, the last part was - as usual - a Gigue, which is generally a hard case to an old man as I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxRmUW8XFk But the Gigue anyhow made the suite complete. And here you'll find - in case interested - the whole suite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhYSNQgI9jE And if you happen to want to see the written music, or even better to play it, you'll find the original tabulature here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/TristeDepartSuite/ My comment on f-minor: For a while I'll definitely leave the notes Ab and especially the Db to others... Back to the problematic G#'s and especially to the beautiful C#'s! Anyhow, actually the f-minor by baroque d-minor lute was very fun, interesting and enjoyable... :-)) Love and peace, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
