Dowland transposed all the time--except he put the music into a MORE difficult key. dt
At 02:00 PM 2/14/2009, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I think Dowland himself would not have objected to transposing a lute >song to suit the tessitura of a particular singer. >Most of his songs can quite comfortably be played in various >tonalities as I have done on many occasions. At times new ideas emerge >because of the different sonorities being produced by my trusty lute. > >Lex van Sante > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
