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Thus an 8-course Renaissance lute usually has 15 strings, and a 13-course Baroque lute has 24. The courses are tuned in unison for high and intermediate pitches, but for lower pitches one of the two strings is tuned an octave higher (the course where this split starts changed over the history of the lute).
The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. [140] During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments which played the basso continuo accompaniment parts.
Huygens had the lute sent to him on approval, but did not buy it. In 1649 Charles I gave Gaultier another Laux Maler lute, formerly belonging to the royal lutenist John Ballard. Gaultier offered this lute to Huygens, and sent it to The Hague but could not secure an expert recommendation for it from their mutual friend Mary Woodhouse. [9]
Most of Dowland's music is for his own instrument, the lute. [14] It includes several books of solo lute works, lute songs (for one voice and lute), part-songs with lute accompaniment, and several pieces for viol consort with lute. [15] The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's "heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense."
An Entrée de luth by Robert Ballard, performed on an eight-course Renaissance lute by David Hernández Romero. Robert Ballard II (c.1572 or 1575 – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer. [1]
Together with the oeuvres of Francesco Spinacino and Vincenzo Capirola, Dalza's work constitutes an important part of early Renaissance lute music. The surviving pieces comprise 42 dances, nine ricercares, five tastar de corde, four intabulations and a piece called Caldibi castigliano. The dances are arranged in miniature suites.
Thomas Robinson (c. 1560 – c. 1610) was an English Renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around 1600. He taught and wrote music for lute, cittern, orpharion, bandora, viol, and voice.
Hans Judenkünig (also Judenkunig or Judenkönig; c. 1445 – 4 March 1526) was a German lutenist, lute maker, and composer of the Renaissance. [1] Life and career