Just rewrite them and play and play them till they sound the same as you think they might have sounded if you knew them from childhood back then.
dt At 01:16 PM 12/15/2008, you wrote: >Dear lutenists, > >after having played and arranged quite a few pieces to lute, one perhaps >interesting idea occurred to my mind: When I work (play or arrange) >pieces that I know already from childhood, years and years before knowing >what the lute is, my attitude is very different to playing and also >arranging, compared to the to me new "early music" pieces: it is >(naturally) much easier to see (=hear) those familiar pieces as "music". > >Well, nothing news or nothing so clever in that, but as far as I >understand, knowing the pieces, and hearing what you know, not exactly >what you really hear, was also the norm in the times of lute >intabulations: When a song is well known to you, you hear it also in an >intabulation that does not "repeat it all"! > >To me for example my carols > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/10_courseLute/Carols/ >and why not also "Paint it black" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuyf4uha8fs >represent pieces I knew by heart years before really knowing what the >"lute" is... :-) > >All the best, > >Arto > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
