In a message dated 2/27/04 6:41:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> By the way Jessie has published a fascinating book _Composers at Work: The > Craft of Musical Composition, 1450-1600_ (OUP, 1997). It includes some > remarks about how the lute was sometimes used as a means for composing. > That is, Palestrina may have composed "at the lute," and he even previewed > the mass for a patron by playing it on the lute. She also tracked down > some pieces if lute music that may be compositional sketches. There is not > too much material like that because it is thought composers first wrote a > piece oin a wax slate, and then when the composition was complete, ink it > into a manuscript (or intabulate it?). > At the LSA LuteFest in Cleveland this coming June, the Venere Lute Quartet will perform a program of their arrangements of Palestrina for lutes. Kenneth Be --
