Description

Damiani Andrea,  “Method for Renaissance Lute”
Traduction Doc Rossi
Paperback.  208 Pages.  235×315 mm
Publisher:  Ut Orpheus Edizioni

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

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