Dear lutenists, after having played and arranged quite a few pieces to lute, one perhaps interesting idea occurred to my mind: When I work (play or arrange) pieces that I know already from childhood, years and years before knowing what the lute is, my attitude is very different to playing and also arranging, compared to the to me new "early music" pieces: it is (naturally) much easier to see (=hear) those familiar pieces as "music".
Well, nothing news or nothing so clever in that, but as far as I understand, knowing the pieces, and hearing what you know, not exactly what you really hear, was also the norm in the times of lute intabulations: When a song is well known to you, you hear it also in an intabulation that does not "repeat it all"! To me for example my carols http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/10_courseLute/Carols/ and why not also "Paint it black" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuyf4uha8fs represent pieces I knew by heart years before really knowing what the "lute" is... :-) All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
