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2017-01-21 13:12:53
[…] of the repertoire of lute pieces I play for more than 20 years now. One of the treasures I brought home with me from my trip to attend The Lute Society of America Summer Seminar West in 1996 was a facsimile of Introduction printed in 1988 by Editions Minkoff in Geneva. Two facsimiles and a compact disc (clockwise from bottom left): Attaingnant’s Tres breve introduction (1529); Petrucci’s Libro Primo of frottole and ricercare by Bossinensis (1509) ; Hopkinson Smith’s Attaingnant: Preludes, Chansons, and Danses (2001/2002) ~ click to enlarge It’s about the size of the palm of my hand. By today’s standards, it’s a very small book: smaller than a mass market paperback and measuring just 15 x 10 cm (about 6 x 4 inches). My facsimile copy might actually be the smallest book I own. The reduced size of some of his books – as […]
2016-12-16 14:53:30
[…] renaissance solo lute music: intabulations, ricercari (original contrapuntal fantasies), and dances. Nearly half of the pieces in the manuscript are intabulations of vocal models: frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, motets and mass movements by Agricola, Brumel, Obrecht, and of course Josquin. Capirola’s intabulations are carefully and musically executed. In the intabulations of four-part compositions, the lute transcriptions reproduce the full textures of the vocal originals much more faithfully than in earlier intabulations by Spinacino and Bossinensis – albeit in some cases with florid ornamentation. Vidal’s manuscript includes 13 pieces titled ricercar, which is the generic name given to a short piece of music comparable in character to the fantasy or prelude of later musical style periods. Ricercar literally means “to search out” and the practice of playing a brief ricercar before another piece in the same key (mode) seems to have been common practice for Italian lutenists at the beginning […]
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