BTW, in a concert of early baroque music I heard last
year Lee Santana switched at the end of a piece from
theorbo (which he plays excellent IMHO) to a small A
lute (I think it was 12 course Dutch/French/English
style), just when the text was about something
heavenly, eternally. The effect
Dear all,
Does anyone have experience with the Nicolas Vallet's Psalms =
published in Regia Pietas?
I've got the facsimile edition, but as I've never had any experience =
with this particular repertoire, I was wondering if any of you have done =
a transcription of some of the pieces,
Dear Ariel;
I will be performing ten of the psalms from Regia Pietas on
January 28 with a singer. You may have noticed the little asterisks
under the tablature. As explained in the editor's notes in the
introduction, these indicate points where the voice
Thomas,
You mention playing the music of the Regia Pietas, and you say you hadn't
thought of them as songs but instrumental works. I confess that I often use
the word song when referring to a piece of instrumental music, and do so by
choice. In some languages the word song is synonymous with
Hello,
the instrument Stephan mentioned that Lee Santana played you can find on the
following web-site:
http://www.lutes-strings.de/e-renaiss.php -- Descant lute, 10 courses
This instrument is based on a small archlute by Sellas ( Leipzig museum ) and the
pegbox construction from the Mest
Hi Jon,
I used the term (lute) song as opposed to instrumental work. Off
course the psalm settings are song settings in the sense that
preexisting carols are put to the lute (and often with additional
diminuitions). This carols are based on religious texts (the psalms).
Usually I am insecure
Dear Ariel all,
These are some of the most gorgeous lute songs in the repertoire. They are
astonishingly beautiful, and they have a unique feature; they are the only
pieces I know of, where the singer accompanies the lute! The lute parts
are these wonderful, dense polyphonic compositions,
Thomas,
Your explanation is perfect (and I just saw some postings on the harp list
that I'll answer tomorrow after a night's sleep having to do with folk
songs). Song and lied are considered synonymous, but they aren't quite.
English is a lovely language because of its variety and range of
Dear lutenetters,
Here is a reply from a series of questions which I (privately) put to
Arto about converting a lute into a theorbo.
Since it is on a subject which should be of general interest, we have
decided to open it to you all.
I will be most interested in any contributions that you may
The webpage for the LSA Lute Festival 2004 (June 27 - July 2, 2004) has been
updated so that the faculty (if you click on their names) have bios and
photos posted.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/seminar/Cleveland2004/index.html
Soon, online secure payment registration will be available for the
In a message dated 1/13/04 4:14:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone have experience with the Nicolas Vallet's Psalms =
published in Regia Pietas?
I've got the facsimile edition, but as I've never had any experience =
with this particular repertoire, I was
Dear lutenetters,
Here is a reply from a series of questions which I
(privately) put to
Arto about converting a lute into a theorbo.
Since so many lutes were converted to so many
different configurations historicaly, this sort of
thing seems like a good way to learn more about lute
I have some interesting new material in the iconography department at
http://polyhymnion.org/torban ,
for those interested.
RT
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http://turovsky.org
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