Who or what could that "Devo" in the Balcarres ms. be? Matthew Spring
doesn't give any explanation in his great analysis of the ms. Could it
be the "Devil" himself? Or perhaps some Scottish family or person? Or
perhaps just only some reference to nature or to some everyday item?
Arto
On 13/10/12 22:30, Arto Wikla wrote:
.. I could not resist --- as I told, addictive it is ... ;-)
Devo's gige, by mr. Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ohrvaneF4&feature=youtu.be
http://vimeo.com/51355922
All the best,
Arto
Dear lutenists,
I already decided to come back to the Continental lute repertoire,
but couldn't yet... ;)
In many years I tried to understand the Scottish lute music, but
could not - it just looked like some aleatoric computer generated
random stuff. But for some reason or another I happened to take
another look to the Balcarres ms. about 1.5 moths ago, and I was
hooked... I suppose and accept that my playing probably is not
acceptable at all by the really hard core Scottish musicians, but
anyhow to me this has been very interesting and happy journey to the
Scottish mentality - which by the way doesn't seem to be so very far
off from the Finnish type of melancholy...
Today I tried the Tarphicken, mr. Beck's way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7q4N6lVOAM&feature=youtu.be
http://vimeo.com/51302185
Best,
Arto
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