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- The playing of lute duets must have been quite a common occurrence in Elizabethan England. Nearly two-thirds of the sources of lute music from the ‘Golden Age’ (1575–1620) contain music for two lutes – a substantial body of literature numbering close to 100 pieces.
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There are three main currently available editions of the English lute duets. Stefan Lundgren has edited most of the English duets, published in four albums by Lundgren Edition. Lundgren has chopped the treble and ground duets about, to share out treble and ground sections between the two players.
Collectively, the largest proportion of this information shows typical ownership of only one lute, whilst references that do not follow this trend normally document ownership of only small numbers, that is, between ‘ij Lutes’ and ‘4 lootes’.
- Richard Robinson
- 2021
The playing of lute duets must have been quite a common occurrence in Elizabethan England. Nearly two-thirds of the sources of lute music from the ‘Golden Age’ (1575–1620) contain music for two lutes – a substantial body of literature numbering close to 100 pieces.
Feb 26, 2019 · Julia Craig-McFeely lists more than 30 genres of solo lute music in English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630. The vast majority of these are dances: pavans, galliards, almains, courantes, volts, jigs.
Nov 1, 2004 · Table . shows that the English lute-duet repertoire is dominated by one man, John Johnson, and that while there are over twenty sources of English duets, only a handful of sources contain much...
1984. Renaissance music by John Dowland, John Danyel, John Marchant, John Johnson, Thomas Robinson, Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger, and that enigmatic figure...
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The music of the English lute school that survives today is preserved in about 85 manuscript and five printed sources, containing 2100 different pieces with a further 1230 concordances, giving a total of
