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From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: [LUTE] 15th century dance: Anello (lute/gittern duo)
I once went (as a player!) to a day's course on fifteenth century dance.
Evidently fifteenth century dance is,or was, contentious - with rival
camps interpreting the sparse evidence in different ways. Ian brought along
some of his own arrangements although he wanted players to work out their
own parts.
As I remember, Ian thought that the surviving tenors (even if they were
tuneful in themselves) would have had a top and bottom part added. Here's
a (slightly ragged) go at his arrangement of Anello, played as a 'bas'
ensemble of lute and gittern.
The gittern was made by Bill Samson. (It's got a lovely sound but I do not
find it easy to play with a plectrum.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMD4mW5tKDY
Stuart
Very nice too - but it seems to me that you could dance to just the single
line. The lute does sound a bit bumpy in the recording. Where does the
picture come from?
You must have a whole house full of instruments - a veritable museum! All
I have is a baroque guitar and a "vihuela" which is now unplayable, I feel
quite deprived.
Monica
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