<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 12 January 2007 - Volume 04<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
"Mathias Rösel" <<a href="mailto:Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de">Mathias.Roesel@t-online.de</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Website' 2007.01.12 (04) [E]
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<p>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject:
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<p>"Talk" to me, and I'll pass it on to the rest of the LL-L Team.
</p></span></span><span class="q"><span><br>Hi, Mathias! <br><br>I hope you don't
mind me posting your response. I wasn't sure but then thought
it was
all right because the information is found at your websites
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<p marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" alink="#000080" vlink="#000000" link="#000000"><span>well, it came as surprise, but it's okay
as
far as
there is no doubt left that it was your idea, not mine >B)</span></p><span class="q">
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<p>If you're a composer </p></span></blockquote></blockquote></span>
<p>The lute is an extinct instrument, so to say. It was at home in any
hut or
palace during 15th to 18th centuries, but today it is unknown to most
people
(just like Low Saxon, in a way). There hardly is a living composer for
this
instrument, unfortunately. I'm an amateur player, belonging to lute
communities,
e. g. the Lute Society of America <a href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Elsa" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa</a> or
Lute Society <a href="http://www.lutesoc.co.uk/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.lutesoc.co.uk</a> or
die
Deutsche Lautengesellschaft <a href="http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.lautengesellschaft.de</a>
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<p>you could compose a Lowlands tune, perhaps in 17th-century Low
Country's
style or such</p></blockquote></blockquote></span>
<p>There's loads of stuff extant, already. 16th century composers and
publishers
like Tilman Susato or Pierrre Phalese in the Low Countries had their
title pages
written in common laguage, of course, i. e. Low Saxon (some may call it
Dutch).
Same applies to early 17th century Nicolas Vallet (Amsterdam). One
thing
I'd
love to lay my hands upon is a manuscript with Scottish tunes for the
baroque
lute, dating from the time shortly before Italians in Scotland (like e.
g.
Geminiani) coined what today is usually called Scottish folk style. The
Balcarres Manuscript, as it is called, unfortunately is not in the
public
domain. An English noble family owns it and is having difficulties with
releasing more than five pieces of music per century. Well...</p><span class="q">
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<p>, or something new. If you are not, how about recording a
"representative" piece. We'd post the sound file.
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<p>I could give some links so that you can listen to the sound. You can
find a
bunch of examples here: <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/instrumenticons/34820.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#0000ff">http://community.livejournal.com/instrumenticons/34820.html
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<p>But it would be nice to post the sheet music as well, at least
for the
sake of deaf people. </p></blockquote></blockquote></span>
<p>Music for the lute was usually notated in tablature, not in staff
notation,
thoughout the centuries. Please find more here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature</a> (I
wrote
the part on German tablature). There is a picture of so called Italian
lute
tablature. Tablature will make it hard for people to follow the music
who are
used to it.<font color="#0000ff" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="3"><br>-- <br>All
the
best,<br><br>Mathias </font></p></div>
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