A really lovely piece of music, likely written on guitar
or conceived with regard to that market. Very well performed too.
Interestingly it is so much better than
the atonal stuff that Brian has on his own channel.
A pleasant surprise.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 4:09 PM
Subject: [LUTE] lute piece by Brian Wright (and fret n)
In the latest Music Supplement to Lute News, nestling between
formidable-looking fantasias by Diomedes on one side and an even more
formidable-looking Bach transcription for Baroque lute on the other, is
a piece by Brian Wright.
This is unusual territory for a lute, I think. It's not technically
difficult. Well, there are no fast runs nor tricky rhythms.But it does
use very high positions, including fret n, the twelfth fret. I've always
thought I had a decent lute but my fret n is almost a pitchless plink.
The music also calls for fret l on the fifth course and the maker of my
lute hasn't extended the little wooden fret to cover the fifth course.
And I don't think I've ever had need of it.
(On a guitar, at the twelfth fret one might be thinking of apoyando and
ripe vibrato but presumably this situation is different)
So I wonder what other people's lute sounds like at n on the first
course? I'm happy enough with my first course (sounds like a meal...) up
to l but thereafter, not a lot is happening.
Here's a go at it (with some mangly bits that really stick out in this
context)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72Hhwk-a7k
Stuart
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