Hi Thomas,
I have been working on the layout of upcoming Journals for the LSA in
recent months and Lorenzino is the topic of all of that work. Right
now the 2004 Journal is finished and waiting for the next Quarterly to
be ready and they will be mailed together.
The 2004 Journal is 1 big article by Mariagrazia Carlone called "The
Knights of the Lute" with a lot of details on who had this name and
why, tracing details of who they worked for and when. Here is the table
of contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
I. Biographies
I.a Lorenzino Tracetti
I.a.1 Eques Auratus
I.a.2 Trejicium vatem
I.a.3 Quel giovane, che sona di lauto
I.a.4 Lorentzin
I.a.5 Dominus Laurentius Traciettus Romanus
I.b Other musicians with the name Lorenzino
I.b.1 Lorenzino Fiammingo (Lorenzo Zevero)
I.b.2 Lorenzino Bolognese (Lorenzo Lodi)
I.c Vincenzo Pinti
I.c.1 Vincentius Pintus Cives Romanus
I.c.2 Nec fidibus quisquam melior
I.c.3 Ob fidei candorem ... longe conspicuo
I.c.4 Lusitaniae Christi Militiae Eques
II.Documents and Literary Texts
II.a Sources relating to musicians named Lorenzino
II.b Sources relating to Vincenzo Pinti
Genealogical Trees
Bibliography
I really enjoyed this article because it gave a nice picture of what
life was like for these lute players: job contract negotiations that
rival the negotiations of today's rock stars. My favorite anecdote was
the document about a gambling barge on the river Po where one of the
Lorenzino candidates was employed. Apparently the villagers along the
river were very upset when the barge came to their towns because the
idle rich folks ate them out of house and home.
The Journal that I am working on now is 2 articles, also about
Lorenzino - the musical sources of his music by Mariagrazia and an
great article by Paul Beier "Some Observations on the Music of
Lorenzino and the Knight of the Lute." This article includes 11
musical examples that really wet my appetite to look at the whole
pieces, so we will eventually have those pieces on the LSA web site.
In addition Paul has an article in the upcoming Quarterly. It's "Some
Remarks on the Seven-Course Lute Music in the Siena Manuscript." These
are anonymous pieces that might be by Lorenzino.
Nancy
I'm wondering about the identity of the Laurencini of Besard's
collection.
It seems we have at least two viable candidates for the Lorenzino of
Thesaurus Harmonicus. If I read Mariagrazia Carlone's work
properly, she
believes the Knight to be Vincenzo Pinti. However, I just scanned
the notes
of Marco Pesci's cd devoted to Lorenzino, and he vies for Lorenzino
Tracetti.
Any general views on this? I just finished a cd of Italian lute
music c.
1600, including a handful of tunes by Lorenzino. I don't intend to
delve
deep in the scholarship on this topic, much less add anything new,
but I
would like to get some facts straight before I write the CD notes
(last task
remaining).
Thanks much all,
Thomas Walker, Jr.
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