Archlute music
Updated 4.9.2009
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© Arto Wikla
20.10.2008
In the late renaissance (c. 1580-1600) and in the baroque (c. 1600-17??)
periods many different types of extended lutes were popular.
One group of these was called by names
archlute, arciliuto, liuto attiorbato, ....
Common to this group was that the courses on fingerboard
were tuned in the old "renaissance way".
Robert Spencer's article
Chitarrone, Theorbo and Archlute is a well written
introduction to these extended lutes.
- In the
Dusiacki Lute Book (Berlin/Cracow, mus. ms. 40153)
there are six pieces for archlute by Santino Garsi da Parma.
Perhaps these pieces could be called more or less as "Gebrauchsmusik",
but I think they still are quite well made in that 'genre':
- Aria del Gran Duca:
my edition (fol. 7v-8r) (pdf),
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
This piece is Santino's archlute version of the very popular song by
Emilio de Cavalieri composed for the Florentine Intermedio of 1592.
This archlute version is also a wonderful etyde for playing the
bass strings...
- Correnta:
my edition (fol. 4v) (pdf),
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Ballo del Serenissimo Duca di Parma:
my edition (fol. 70r-70v) (pdf)
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Balletto:
my edition (fol. 62v-63r) (pdf).
In this edition the trillo(?) markings of the original (uppercase "T" with
a dot to the right) are replaced by lowercase "t"'s.
- Balletto:
my edition (fol. 65v-66r) (pdf)
- Gagliarda della Marquesa di Sala:
my edition (fol. 60v-61) (pdf)
This piece is enigmatic because of the many errors(?)
in the manuscript.
If someone wants to make own edition, perhaps these help:
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The ms. 40153, fol. 60v-61
(pdf)
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Raw and uncorrected version (pdf)
(made of ms. 40153, fol. 60v-61)
and also its
tab-file,
if someone is interested in making own editions...
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My heavily edited (1st?)
version (pdf).
My reconstruction has quite uneven phrases, but still it feels
quite natural to me. Perhaps Marquesa di Sala actually
was an uneven, odd, person...;-)
And then there is also the known problem of non-ternary galliards...
And in any case this version perhaps is more Arto's than
Santino's...? "It's only rock and roll, but I like it!" :-))
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The
ms. 40032, fol. 153v/p. 361
(pdf). Thanks to Arthur Ness for
pointing me this much clearer version! Arthur also told an
interesting fact:
"By the way, the Contessa [Marchessa] di Sala was the beautiful
Barbara Sanvitale née Sanseverino. Fabritio Dentice was one of her
musicians."
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Edition by 'En Choeurs Régale'
See also
their pages.
(4.9.2009)
- Pietre Rotolanti: Dipingi nera quella porta,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
Partly improvised version of a very famous and beautiful (ba?)rock song.
Just in case someone is interested,
here is my ms. that
I have in front of me in the video.
I had planned to play two verses, but when the recording
already had started, I decided instead improvise a "prelude"
and play only one verse and repeat the A part at the end.
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Passagalia,
lute arrangements and video performance
- Giovanni Zamboni Romano: Sonata 9 (Lucca 1718)
(parts 1 and 2 in pdf,
parts 3 to 5 in pdf)
- Preludio,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Alemanda,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Giga,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Sarabanda, largo,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Gavotte, allegro,
video in YouTube,
video in Vimeo
- Girolamo Kapsberger (Libro primo di lauto, Roma 1611):
- Manuscript "Libro di Leuto di Gioseppe Antonio Doni"
(Perugia, 17th century):
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See also my pages
11-course lute music
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French theorbo music
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10-course lute music
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Chitarrone music
/
Chitarrino music.
There are also some other arrangements, intabulations, etc. in my
Contributions page.
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