Urtext Compositeur : Weiss Silvius Leopold Instrumentation : Luth (+)
Urtext Compositeur : Weiss Silvius Leopold Instrumentation : Luth Editors: Terrell Stone Publication Date: 1998 Series: Silva de Sirenas. Music for Lute, Theorbo and Baroque Guitar Pages: pp. 36
A rare work for the Lute-based Theorbo. Below is the programme note from the com...(+)
A rare work for the Lute-based Theorbo. Below is the programme note from the composer.In July 1998 I decided that I would use a theorbo in Havoc a piece I was writing for the 1999 Proms (premiere September 8th 1999). Since my knowledge of the instrument was negligible I contacted David (The Orbo) Miller and appealed for help since I knew he would be playing in the Proms piece. He kindly and with admirable patience showed me how the instrument worked and I began writing groundwork as a technical exercise - hence one meaning of the title. The other is that it is a set of variations over a ground bass.Since the theorbo possesses eight diapason bass strings - whichare plucked like those of a harp not stopped with the left and - it seemed sensible to use these for the ground bass which consists simply of a rising eight-note scale using all diapason strings in turn. This ground is stated at the beginning and developed through 16 variations. Nos 1 to 7 are straightforward except that some of them compress the ground into itself. Nos 8 to 16 are in stretto: they are gradually overlapped with each other the new ground beginning one note earlier each time. The climax of the piece comes at variations 10 to 11; variations 12 to 14 bring it gradually down to earth; no. 15 is quiet and puts the decorated ground in relaxed canon with itself (in octaves using the top and bottom strings of the instrument). Variation 16 strips the ground of decoration putting tight scrunchy chords over it and the piece ends with the lowest diapason string (G) a quiet raspberry ripple of the other seven diapason strings and a final harmonic G to tell us that our little journey is over. I hope you enjoy the scenery.Giles Swayne
Edited by David Greer70 partsongs by Michael Cavendish Robert Jones Francis Pi...(+)
Edited by David Greer70 partsongs by Michael Cavendish Robert Jones Francis Pilkington and John Bartlett are presented in four-part score with lute tablature and transcription.First published in 1987.
Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Lute Tablature Edition can be viewed as either a sup...(+)
Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Lute Tablature Edition can be viewed as either a supplement to the popular Introduction to the Lute: for Lute and Guitar Players or as a standalone edition of 16th-century lute tablatures. Play from beautifully-typeset scores, music by John Dowland, Francesco da Milano, Vincenzo Galilei (father of the famous astronomer) and many others, including vihuela composers Narváez and Milán. Together, this collection provides a beautiful and extensive overview of music for the renaissance lute. This edition is in French lute tablature. There is a separate edition in guitar tablature, Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Guitar Tablature Edition.
The Original First and Second Books Including Dowland's Original Lute Tablature....(+)
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)
Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (1563'1626) today contin...(+)
Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (1563'1626) today continues to delight singers, musicians, and music lovers alike. This collection of 45 songs includes all the works in Dowland's original third and fourth books of lute songs, the composer's contributions to his son's anthology of 1610, and a dance for solo guitar. Content : THE THRID AND LAST BOOKE I. Farewell too fair II. Time stands still III. Behold a wonder here IV. Daphne was not so chaste V. Me, me and none but me VI. When Phoebus first did Daphne love VII. Say Love if ever thou didst find VIII. Flow not so fast ye fountains IX. What if I never speed' X. Love stood amaz'd XI. Lend your ears to my sorrow XII. By a fountain where I lay XIII. Oh what hath overwrought XIV. Farewell unkind farewell XV. Weep you no more, sad fountains XVI. Fie on this feigning XVII. I must complain XVIII It was a time when silly bees could speak XIX. The lowest trees have tops XX. What poor astronomers are they XXI. Come when I call (for two voices and two lutes) A PILGRIMES SOLACE I. Disdain me still II. Sweet stay awhile III. To ask for all thy love IV. Love those beams V. Shall I strive with words to move (Mignarda, a galliard is Dowland's title for the solo lute version of the lyre Shall I strive with words to move. VI. Were every thought an eye VII. Stay Time awhile thy flying VIII. Tel me true Love (with chorus) The next three with treble and bass viols ofr violin and cello: IX. Go nightly cares X. From silent night XI. Lasso vita mia XII. In this trembling shadow XIII. If that a sinner's sighs A three-part work: XIV. Thou mighty God XV. When David's life XVI. When the poor cripple XVII. Where sin sore wounding XVIII. My heart and tongue were twins The next with chorus: XIX. Up merry mates XX. Welcome black night XXI. Cease these false sports THREE AYRES FROM A MUSICALL BANQUET Far from triumphing Court Lady if you so spite me In darkness let me dwell GALLIART TO LACHRIMAE A lute solo from A Pilgrimes Solace, transcribed for guitar