Dear lutenists, perhaps also "normal"(?) lutenists are intersted in a strangely modern baroque lute piece:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] La Comete by Gallot, modern music from 17th century... Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:13:00 +0300 From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> To: baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Dear baroque lutenists, a couple of messages: 1) shameless(?) "self promotion" of a quite not yet ready performance of a very great and interesting piece 2) suggestion/question of a possible form of that piece 1) Today I "tubed" a very intersting piece: La Comete, Chaconne du V. Gallot (D-Lem ms. II.6.14). It is a chaconne by Jacques Gallot. The piece is really very modern to be composed in the 17th century. My playing is really far from perfect - perhaps even more un-clean than normally in my tubings - but the piece is really unique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD8cqQqYpts This is my first try of this great but difficult piece. More versions perhaps to come, when I learn more? You can find the original tabulature and also modern notation of the piece in page http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/11_courseLute/, go to item 24. Perhaps the piece tells about the C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet? See the Wikipedia article in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1680. 2) The piece has the following (written sections) A(4 bars), B(8 bars), C(8 bars), D(8 bars), E(8 bars), F(8 bars, last 4 repeated= 12 bars), G(12 bars), H(12 bars) I would think it could/should be played in the following "12-bar-normalized" way (I do not do it like that in my tubing! perhaps in the next version?): AAA BA CA DA EA F G H AAA Especially because there are hints of repeating the A at the end of sections B and H. What do you think? Especially you, who know about dancing the Chaconne! 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
