On 01/02/2012 6:08 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
Would baroque lute music have been played during a ball or masquerade?
I often imagine it when I listen to the music, but it occurred to me
that the lute may have been too quiet for it.
While I can't speak directly for Baroque lute, certainly in the
Renaissance the lute was used to accompany dancing. There is plenty of
evidence for it - dance instruction manuals with lute tablature
accompaniments and paintings of dancing with lute (and/or other
instruments) providing the music.
I think that it tended to be a quieter time generally, so the lute
wasn't out of step with the times.
Roman once wrote here on the same question "...they did but they
shouldn't have!"
Stephen Fryer
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