Traduction Doc Rossi Compositeur : Damiani Andrea Instrumentation : Luth Publication Date: 1999 Series: Teoria e Didattica della Musica (Theoretical and Educational Texts) Pages: pp. 208 CONTENTS * Preface * Introduction * CHAPTER 1. TUNING AND TABLATURE Tuning - Tablature (French tablature - Italian tablature - Rhythm symbols - Fingering and other symbols) - Stringing and doubling - Tuning practice (Practical advice on tuning - Tuning problems) - Strings * CHAPTER 2. BASIC TECHNIQUES Posture and position of the lute - Right-hand position - Right-hand functions - Sound production (Positioning p - Forearm movement - Attack - Positioning i) - Alternating p and i - Finger articulation for polyphonic passages (Positioning p - Positioning i) - Preparatory exercises - Differences from guitar technique - Body control * CHAPTER 3. THE RIGHT HAND Forearm and accentuation - Fingering * CHAPTER 4. THE LEFT HAND General principals - Preparatory exercises - Avoiding stiffness - Differences from guitar technique - Hand coordination * CHAPTER 5. SCALES Right-hand scale technique (Forearm movement - Finger articulation - Integrating the two techniques) * CHAPTER 6. EXERCISES FOR TWO LUTES Exercises on a ground bass - Contrapuntal exercises - Articulation - Dances and ground basses * CHAPTER 7. SHIFTING LEFT-HAND POSITIONS Fundamental principals - Position changes using the same finger - Position changes by substitution - Position changes by jump * CHAPTER 8. EXERCISES FOR TWO LUTES WITH POSITION CHANGES * CHAPTER 9. RIGHT-HAND TECHNIQUE IN POLYPHONIC MUSIC p-i articulation - Positioning m - Rest stroke with p - Left-hand positions and movement - m-i articulation - Combining p, i and m - Easy pieces in two voices - Two-voice scales * CHAPTER 10. COUNTERPOINT Voice progression and intervals - The species - Florid counterpoint - Imitation - Syncopation - Suspension * CHAPTER 11. CONTRAPUNTAL PIECES IN TWO VOICES * CHAPTER 12. THREE VOICES The right hand - Combining chords and single notes - Repeated chords and monophonic passages - Arpeggios - Chords and counterpoint * CHAPTER 13. CONTRAPUNTAL PIECES IN THREE VOICES Technical aspects: three-voice scales, the barre - Contrapuntal pieces in three voices * CHAPTER 14. CHORDS OF FOUR OR MORE NOTES The ring finger (a) - Five- and six-note chords - Chords played with p * CHAPTER 15. IDIOMATIC LUTE COMPOSITIONS Chords and divisions - Characteristics of lute composition * CHAPTER 16. TRANSFORMATION OF LUTE TECHNIQUE DURING THE 16th CENTURY Evolution of right-hand position - Exercises for m-i alternation * CHAPTER 17. TECHNIQUE Scales (Full-length scales in all keys - Scales with divisions) - Speed - Left-hand legato and ornamentation - The barre (Preparatory exercises - Barre exercises) - Scales in two and more voices (Two-voice scales - Three-voice scales) - Polyphonic patterns - Right-hand exercises * CHAPTER 18. RENAISSANCE PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Interpretation (Rhetoric - Sound quality - Rhythmic inequality) - Ornamentation (16th-century sources - The first half of the 16th century - The second half of the 16th century - The first half of the 17th century - The Elizabethans) * CHAPTER 19. TEMPERAMENT Meantone temperament - Equal temperament

The Original First and Second Books Including Dowland’s Original Lute Tablature. THE FIRST BOOK OF SONGS I. Unquiet thoughts II. Who ever thinks or hopes of love III. My thoughts are wing'd with hopes IV. If my complaints could passions move V. Can she excuse my wrongs? VI. Now, O now, I needs must part VII. Dear, if you change VIII. Burst forth, my tears IX. Go crystal tears X. Think'st thou then by thy feigning XI. Come away, come sweet love XII. Rest awhile you cruel cares XIII. Sleep, wayward thoughts XIV. All ye, whom Love or Fortune XIVa. All ye, whom Love or Fortune XV. Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me XVI. Would my conceit XVII. Come again XVIII. His golden locks XIX. Awake, sweet love, thou art return'd XX. Come, heavy Sleep XXI. Away with these self-loving lads ------ My Lord Chamberlain his Galliard (For two to play...) THE SECOND BOOK OF SONGS I. I saw my Lady weep II. Flow my tears III. Sorrow, stay IV. Die not before thy day V. Mourn, day is with darkness fled VI. Time's eldest son, Old Age (The first part) VII. Then sit thee down (The second part) VIII. When others sing Venite (The third part) IX. Praise blindness eyes X. O sweet woods XI. If floods of tears XII. Fine knacks for ladies XIII. Now cease my wand'ring eyes XIV. Come ye heavy states of night XV. White as lilies was her face XVI. Woeful heart XVII. A shepherd in a shade XVIII. Faction that ever dwells XIX. Shall I sue XX. Toss not my soul XXI. Clear or cloudy XXIa. Clear or cloudy XXII. Humour say what mak'st thou here (a Dialogue)