Hi Luters! I'm not sure if I already have posted an anouncement of this interesting edition. So here it comes (again):
Johann Jacob FROBERGER (1616-1667) SUITE Bb-Major for 11-course Lute anonymus arrangement after FbWV 605 and FbWV 612 (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Mus. Ms. 40601) edited by François-Pierre GOY Although Johann Jacob Froberger made no lute music it's detectable in his works for keyboard that he was influenced by the french lute music. Music for keyboard was seldom transcribed for the lute in the 17th century. The present Suite was edited by an anonymus lutenist and came to us in an also anonymus manuscript which came into being shortly after Froberger's death. It's up to now the only known example of a work by Froberger in a contemporary version for the lute. The suite for lute combines the entire Partita V for Cembalo with it's movements Allemande, Courante and Sarabande from the Libro secondo (1649, FbWV 605) with the Gigue from the Partita VI taken from the Libro quarto (1656, FbWV 612) as final movement. Both of the keyboard works are in C-Major but the editor transposed them to Bb-Major and choosed the Mercure tuning which better fits this key. This tuning varies the usual d-minor tuning by tuning the 6th course to Bb instead of A. The suite is of moderate technical difficulty but musically very charming! orders can be placed at http://www.lutecorner.ch/ price is 8 Euro or 12 CHF Best wishes -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
