Anthony,
On 2009-02-08, at 19:16, Anthony Hind wrote:
Indeed, there are signs that there were disagreements, between
lutenists of past times.
About the practice of using Bologna lutes...
Some lutenists like Mace and Jacques Gautier, who seem to...
The description by Mace of J. Gautier showing...
We see that the king, and one of Jacques Gaultier's students bought
these lutes, not Gaultier, himself, who...
While in Burwell, in contrast, we see a scathing attack on
Gautier's 12c lute.
This makes me think that even then, there could be controversy
between "ancients and moderns"...
Fantastic!!! I'd love to have all this in a book format. I think you
are certainly able and qualified to do it. Anthony, please, write a
handbook for lutenists. As for now, I'm struggling today for a bit of
time to practice, as beside of having a good master and a talent, by
all means one need a motivation for a hard work. Another truism (to
annoy Roman ;-)).
Am I wrong or not but all appogiaturas I hear are sharp
''backwords'', not to say about other ''nuances''...
I am afraid I have not quite understood this last remark, so I can
not tell you whether you are mistaken or not.
This was seemingly out of this topic, but you've included the exemple
here so I couldn't resist a reaction. But I should rather extract it
and put into the ''French trill''.
To put it simple, evidently Satoh, a master for more then one
generation of lute players, since some time in avant-guard of
research on stringing, an icon of a ''new'' right hand approach to
baroque technique, playes the basic French appogiatura (notated with
a coma after a letter) in such a unorthodox way??? And I know, his
students do the same.
You may take it as a critic, as I wolud do 5 or 25 years ago. But it
is a wider thing. You can find questionable elements in playing of
several people, including ''stars'', but in such cases it is never
discused -- to delicate? Or perhaps it desn't matter, like single
strung instruments, hybrids, toy-theorboes, prevailing renesans
tuning on archlutes in most baroque continuo performances. etc, etc.
I think the EM movement once was a stroke of genius, but from the
start it had a concealed virus (or more then one) -- an immanent
conflict between historical evidence and common musical sens. Now it
is to obvious and hundreds of HIP cases testify to this, every day.
Let's be honest...
But I'd love to have your book on phisics of lute!
And I value your knowledge, immensaly.
Regards
Anthony
Jurek
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