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Extant Lutes Database. The Extant Lutes Database is an online resource for lute makers, scholars, players and others interested in the history of the lute. It contains over 800 entries of lutes that have survived into our modern times, mostly held in museums and institutions around the world. These are gathered together as a resource for the ...
- English Renaissance Lute Music
- Background Reading
- Prehistory
- The Golden Age Repertoire: Composers, Modern Editions, and Some Recordings
- Dowland
- Duets
- Larger Ensembles
- Songs
- Printed Sources
- Manuscript Sources
by Chris Goodwin, first printed in Lute News 90-91 In its long history the lute experienced not one, but a series of ‘Golden Ages’, and Elizabethan and Jacobean England certainly enjoyed one of these. The chief glory and ornament of the Elizabethan lute is of course the music of John Dowland (1563–1626) which, if no other lute music at all had come...
The first sytematic study of the repertoire was David Lumsden’s doctoral thesis, ‘The Sources of English Lute Music (1540-1620)’ completed in 1955 (some earlier researches having been disrupted by the Second World War); this endeavour was revisited by Julia Craig McFeely in her 1994 thesis, ‘English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630’. This lat...
The lute probably arrived in England in the late 1200s. The first named lute player we know of, ‘Jean le luteur’ was playing at court in 1285; thereafter court records for most of the later kings show that there were generally one or two lute players at court throughout the middle ages. They would have played with a plectrum—single lines and the oc...
Down the centuries England has produced a number of world-class intellectuals, notably in the more concrete, less fanciful, disciplines such as economics, biology and physics, yet the English have never liked to be thought of as intellectuals; one 20th century poet wrote that for the Englishman an intellectual is someone who thinks up clever excuse...
But let us get back to the great master! It is cliché to refer to Dowland as a melancholy composer, exasperated, and effectively exiled by his failure to get a court post in England, on account of his religious heterodoxy; tactless and temperamental, out of joint with the times both artistically and professionally, expressing his sadness in his mus...
One of the distinctive features of the English Golden Age repertoire is the predominance of dances and popular tune arrangements (contrasting with the emphasis on fantasias and intabulations in Continental sources); another is the large number of duets in English lute books. Julia Craig McFeely’s thesis lists over 150 duet parts, though some of the...
Pictures and written accounts depict all sorts of weird and wonderful ensembles, including lutes, performing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Lute trios and lute quartets may have been quite common, though only a little music survives for each of these ensembles; while large bands of lutes played on stage in 17th century masques. One notable ensembl...
It is worth remembering that the in the ‘Golden Age’ printed books of lute songs far outnumbered printed books of solo lute music; the lute is a wonderful accompanying instrument for a singer. Beethoven and his successors may have got away for about a century and a half with persuading people that orchestral music is the most ‘important’ kind of ar...
Music printing in general, and lute tablature printing in particular, came late to England. In Italy the first known tablature was printed in 1507; in Germany, in 1511, and in France in 1529, but in England, not until 1568. In fact, not much solo lute music (as distinct from ayre accompaniments, after 1597) was ever printed in England, though what ...
The musician Thomas Whytehorn, in his autobiography of c.1575 marvelled at the wide currency of printed music he had seen on his Continental travels; in England, you had to write everything out by hand. About 50-odd English lute manuscripts with music in renaissance tuning survive in the British Isles, plus maybe 15 or 16 Continental manuscripts wi...
Tube. lutes. Lutes belong to the oldest plucked instruments. Lute-like instruments have been found in archeological remains in the Middle East and the Far East from as long as 4000 years ago. In Europe lutes were the most popular instruments for a few hundred years, especially from 1400 to 1800. This can be seen from the large volume of books ...
Mar 21, 2018 · Joseph Buchinger (Buckinger), a music publisher and instrument-maker trained by M. Rauche, also played the lute. 24 The title-page of this collection is reproduced in illustration 5; the only known copy is in the Rowe Music Library at King’s College, Cambridge, with a watermark dated 1800. 25 Although this is not a complete copy of the work, there is enough surviving material to show its ...
- Taro Takeuchi
- 2018
Jul 13, 2015 · German luthiers developed a Germanic version of the French lute and Sylvius Leopold Weiss became its greatest exponent in the 18th century. Weiss’ beautiful and impressive music was the last chapter in the history of the instrument’s cultural significance. Click the picture to play the video.
Aug 26, 2023 · The largest surviving corpus of music for an ensemble of lutes comes from the historical city of Antwerp, and this is largely thanks to the influence of just two people: the music publisher Phalesius and the lute player and first significant composer of lute music in the Low Countries, Emanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1550-1604).
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Oct 3, 2024 · lute, in music, any plucked or bowed chordophone whose strings are parallel to its belly, or soundboard, and run along a distinct neck or pole. In this sense, instruments such as the Indian sitar are classified as lutes. The violin and the Indonesian rebab are bowed lutes, and the Japanese samisen and the Western guitar are plucked lutes. In ...
