Many thanks for the helpful replies - Arto, Mathias, Ed. It would be lovely to accompany the Italian madrigals with these singers but I'm not able to do the intabulation myself, unfortunately. Perhaps one day someone will publish them this way for the relatively unskilled lutenist :-) Helen On Sunday, 3 November 2013, Ed Durbrow wrote:
Yeah for the ladies. This sentence from your link caught my attention. Ippolito Fiorini was the maestro di capella, in charge of the entire court's musical activities.[14] In addition to his duties to the overall court, he accompanied the concerto on the lute. On Nov 3, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Arto Wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > what about the "Concerto delle donne" of Ferrara? See [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_delle_donne > > For example Luzzaschi wrote a book of madrigals for one, two, and three sopranos with keyboard accompaniment, published in 1601. Transforming the keyboard acc (freely) to lute should not be too complicated. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [2]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch [3]https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow [4]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_delle_donne 2. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 3. https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow 4. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html