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Lute Song is a 1946 American musical with a book by Sidney Howard and Will Irwin, music by Raymond Scott, and lyrics by Bernard Hanighen. It is based on the 14th-century Chinese play Tale of the Pipa ( Pi-Pa-Ji ) by Gao Ming . [ 1 ]
The lute song was popular among the Royalty and nobility. King Louis XIII was believed to be fond of the simple songs, which led to a volume of work during his reign. Composers of the lute song usually composed other forms of music as well such as madrigals, chansons, and consort songs. The consort song, popular in England, is considered to be ...
It succeeds the America the Beautiful quarters and Washington Crossing the Delaware quarter. Some coin collectors were critical of the "seemingly unending" proposal to continue to issue five new quarter designs every year for a third decade. [11] Many numismatists are more interested in redesigns of other denominations and less frequent ...
John Attey (d. c. 1640) was an English composer of lute songs or ayres.. Little is known about his life. He appears to have been patronised by John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and the Countess Frances, to whom he dedicates his First Booke of Ayres of Foure Parts, with Tableture for the Lute, in 1622.
This is a list of composers who wrote for lute and similar period instruments: theorbo, chitarrone, vihuela etc. Composers who worked outside of their country of origin are listed according to where they were most active, i.e. German-born Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is listed under Italy. Within sections, the order is alphabetical by surname ...
Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) was a Milanese lutenist and composer. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508).
Selections of lute music attributed to Elias Mertel are found in the Testudo Gallo Germanica by Georg Leopold Fuhrmann (1615) and Jean-Baptiste Besard's Thesaurus Harmonicus (two galliards) (1603). He published collections of lute music, notably Hortus Musicalis in Strasbourg in 1615 including 235 preludes, and 120 fantasias and fugues.
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