Dear all,
Thank you for the Joe Pass suggestions. Jaw-droppingly fluid and rich.
It also got me thinking how jazz standards and renaissance vocal works
evolve in the instrumental sphere.
Quite clearly, the personal reworkings of old established songs is a
great tradition. For example, one of my favorite "standards" is
deRore's 'Ancor che col partire' and there are dozens of lute and
other versions starting from Paladin's earliest. We then see its
evolution to Aminor in Vincenzo Gallilei's setting and fantasy as well
as many of the other heavies. I'd guess that, even if we don't have a
surviving record, it was included in the repertories of many great
players. Terzi? Kapsberger? Frescobaldi? Sweelinck? (Would Dowland
have played it in Italy?) Adriaenssen's two slightly different
settings suggest that versions by players would still evolve over time
and/or performance. It's interesting to watch Pierre Phalese's
"collected" pieces (including Paladin's 'Ancor') change over the years.
Personally, I love the vocal intabulated literature and, for myself,
decorate or undecorate the vocal lines as my whim and feeble sense of
art suggests. I'm probably not that good at it by renaissance
standards but I feel that it's a skill worth building. Of course I
feel the pieces by the big names should be left 'as is' in performance
but confess to less scruples when on my own and among the anonymous.
But here's the rub: Should we, as aspiring HIP players, play our own
versions? Should we be expected to play verbatim the pieces in the
books? --extemporize on them? If we are trying to learn from the
masters, including Django and Joe, shouldn't we really be learning the
traditions of making them our own?
What are the community's thoughts on this?
Sean
ps I'd also like to have heard Pass' take on 'Ancor' but I'm content
to explore his catalog that does exist.
On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Alain Veylit wrote:
Nice interview and great final piece,
Alain
On 12/07/2013 06:41 PM, Bruno Correia wrote:
As we are becoming more jazzier these days, I've just bumped into
this
programme with Joe Pass:
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAZP7nWo6A
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Bruno Figueiredo
Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao
historicamente informada no alaude e teorba.
Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAZP7nWo6A
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