This reminds me of a question raised when I wrote a piece supposedly for lute (6 course) ages ago. I showed it to a lutenist who said it was really guitar music. Well, I'd written it using a guitar (tuned appropriately of course) having no lute to use. But it seems to me that its more a question of the musical style, my piece being a sort of quasi-classical sonata type of thing. So what would the general understanding be, how non-traditional musical style/content affects whether a piece would be considered lute-like? Are there really, subtle aspects of how the instrument works, differently from guitar that would trump these...in which case how would a non-lutenist ever write for lute? (Aside - I've just had a major piece written for guitar by a non-player, some of which is a little challenging and pushes the boundaries...which is rather the point to a degree?)
Stephen Stuart Walsh wrote:
Gilbert Isbin has written some lute duets, "3 contemporary lute duets" published by the Lute Society, 2009. Here is a go at one of them: 'And Autumn Came'.
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