Dear Taco,
On 2007-11-27, at 13:12, Taco Walstra wrote:
On Monday 26 November 2007 21:23, Jerzy Zak rattled on the keyboard:
On 2007-11-26, at 20:06, Roland Hayes wrote:
What about the Francesco Conti ms. - songs with instruments and d
minor lute in tab (?) Could this be a theorbo in d minor? R.
...If I remember there is a CD recording of it (I don't have it), but
that
must be a completely diferent, virtual reality.
Jurek
I have the CD at home and it's quite nice music. Typical Vienna style.
I agree
that the music is a bit difficult to understand sometimes. Never
played to
music myself with an ensemble, but it's on a list of pieces to try.
Is the lute on the CD audible?
Interesting is perhaps that the first book contains lute tabulature,
while the
second does not. Conti was a lutenist, so perhaps these other cantates
were
performed with lute Dm continuo, although conti was also known as
theorbo
player (and of course as 'kapellmeister').
There are several Conti manuscripts in Vienna and the music is a bit
rediscovered nowadays (for example his operas are regularly performed
in
Austria). Don't know if there are more examples of explicit lute
tabulature
in his music. I have read somewhere, if I remember well, that after
his
death they asked weiss who was working in dresden to come as his
replacement.
Taco
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