Dear Peter and all: Has anyone figured out that the piece in question, Pastime with good company, is a re-working of the chanson De mon triste desplaisir? Apparently, it was popular enough at the time for Henry VIII to claim it as a trophy while between wives. Best wishes,
Ron Andrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2]http://www.mignarda.com ______________________________________________________________ From: "Peter W Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Pastime with good company Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:53:01 -0000 >A rather inauspicious start - sorry about the random blank e-mail. I'll try >again.... > >******** > >Hello everyone, > >Long time listener, first time caller (as the phrase goes). My name is >Peter and I am a student of Jakob Lindberg here in sunny old England. > >Does anyone have an arrangement for solo lute of Henry VIII's madrigal >"Pastime with good company"? I was listening to Paul O'Dette's CD "The >Royal Lewters" the other day (track 1, with plenty of divisions) and it >struck me as being a rather fun piece to do tout seul. I cannot hope to >match Paul "The Fastest Lute in the West" O'Dette in virtuosic velocity, but >I'd like to have a stab at it. I've got a copy of the madrigal itself and >an arrangement of it as a lute-song that Sarge Gerbode has done, so if the >worst comes to the worst, I can always arrange it myself, but if someone has >already done the leg-work for me, so much the better. > >Best wishes, > >Peter > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.7/180 - Release Date: 23/11/2005 > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://www.mignarda.com/
