Calleno, or Calen O custure me, found in tablature from the Ballet lute ms. is thought to be an Irish tune.
Several of us have foisted loads of arrangements of later Irish tunes upon unsuspecting listeners, and Ronn McFarlane has a very nice recording of his own arrangements played on baroque lute. __________________________________________________________________ From: lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu <lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> on behalf of Tristan von Neumann <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 8:36 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spanish harp in this whole mix Now that you mention Mersenne... [1]https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63326258/f320.highres But seriously, the question of how the instruments were built is important, but I'm really interested in the music, or more specifically, pieces that are derived from harp playing. I know that new tunings in England are called "harp-way" or something, but what about earlier times? And does anyone know genuine Irish music for Lute? On 21.07.20 21:04, David Brown wrote: > Hello Martyn and luters... > > > As my mail client and VPN seem to insist on arguing, I'll take my > chances of getting this outââ¬Â¦. > > > Since Mudarra and Spanish harp was brought up and I was re-reading > Peter Holman's 1987 article in Early Music, Holman mentions the > possibility that the painting "The Cabalââ¬Â, at Nostell Priory , by J. B. > Medina that "could beââ¬Â Charles Evans with his Italian harp. I am > certain the Spanish harp had its influences on the Italian triple harp, > but this harp appears to be a Spanish double. J. B. Medina was born in > Bruxelles to a Spanish army captain trained with a Flemish Protrait > painter. This might explain something about the representation of a > Spanish harp? What does this have to say about the Cabal? > > > This is a small example of research which the word "appearsââ¬Â is used. > Appearance is in the eye of the beholder, and in this case it "appearsââ¬Â > to be a Spanish harp to me. I should be able to produce an example of > an extant Spanish double??? I think it is cross strungââ¬Â¦., but laterââ¬Â¦ > Bartolomo Jovenardi needs to be put into the mix about now to make > things grey.. > > > Mersenne illustrates a triple harp that looks a bit more Spanish and > relays the story of the triple being invented in Naples, it appears > with the influence of the staved Spanish harp. This, could have been > his interpretation of a triple harp and possibly influenced by the > origin story. > > > Please don't take me wrong, Holman is asking and speculating important > questions that need (needed in 1987) to be asked. Where would we be if > we didn't ask questions and speculate only to have them changed with > more information later? It certainly doesn't change the majority of > evidence that the wire strung harp was probably used in the Lawes > consortsââ¬Â¦ The Italian harp in England early on, remains a grey area > with hopefully more insight to come. > > > Anyway, this seems to be going way out of the lute realm and into the > harp area and maybe should be taken off list?ââ¬Â¦. The start was that > painting of the weird instrumentââ¬Â¦. > > > Pardon > > > Sincerely > > > David > > > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63326258/f320.highres 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html