You'reA very kind to say so,A Ron & Donna! Thank you. Helen On Monday, 6 October 2014, Ron Andrico <[1]praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Helen for mentioning Mignarda Editions Shakespeare's Lute Book.A We have watched with much delight your live video performances of songs from our edition - very well played and sung. It is quite a task to collate and present surviving music from Shakespeare's plays, and our friend and colleague, Ross Duffin, did in fact amass quite a mixture of authenticated and speculative settings of songs featured or mentioned in the plays.A Some of the speculative settings, the product of a computer routine that attempted to match meter with tunes and lyrics, give one pause if we compare them to the elegance of the original surviving settings by Robert Johnson, Robert Jones, Thomas Morley and others.A But it was a nice try and produced food for thought.A For puzzling reasons, Ross omitted the surviving lute accompaniments in favor of a melody line that can be harmonized as you like it.A While this is no problem whatsoever for those of us with a working familiarity of the original settings, and who possess the ability to extemporize, the book requires these things if one wishes to create music for performance. But modern settings of Shakespeare's song with lute accompaniment, like Ed Durbow's offer some interesting alternatives to the more conventional period music.A We should also mention Brian Wright's collection, available through the Lute Society. As for period settings of songs and lute solos, our edition was created for those who wish to actually perform the music, complete with careful text underlay for songs with subsequent verses.A Helen demonstrates some wonderful results in her videos. Best wishes, Donna Stewart & Ron Andrico > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 05:27:19 +0100 > To: [2]wjglso...@gmail.com > CC: [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: [4]helen.atkin...@wordstone.co.uk > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lyrics by Skaespeare > > Please check out Mignarda Editions'A excellent resource (the 5th book > on this list): > > [1][5]http://www.mignarda.com/editions/ > > I've found it invaluable! > > Helen > > On Monday, 6 October 2014, Wim Loos <[2][6]wjglso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A A Daar friends, > A A I'm member of a opera workshop aboutA lyrics from Shakespeare. > A A ShortlyA we have a performance. I like to play and sing lute > music. > A A I wonder if there existA luteA music bases on Shakspeare > lyrics. > A A Thanks in advance, > A A Wim Loos > A A -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3][7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. [8]http://www.mignarda.com/editions/ > 2. mailto:[9]wjglso...@gmail.com > 3. [10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:praelu...@hotmail.com 2. javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wjglso...@gmail.com'); 3. javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lute@cs.dartmouth.edu'); 4. javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','helen.atkin...@wordstone.co.uk'); 5. http://www.mignarda.com/editions/ 6. javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wjglso...@gmail.com'); 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 8. http://www.mignarda.com/editions/ 9. javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wjglso...@gmail.com'); 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
