Description

The music of the three generations of Italian composer/performers on this recording traces lute music in its development from dance, polyphonic and popular roots to a repertoire of stylized expressive abstract composition, music of extraordinary originality, rich harmony and exquisite detail. Unlike the lute music of Elizabethan and Tudor England, the majority of Italian music, beginning around 1500, survives in printed sources. A moveable type music printing technique developed by Ottaviano Petrucci meant that many copies of a lute book could be reproduced at relatively small cost. (Anyone looking at Petrucci’s prints today will immediately recognize them as works of art in themselves)

Alan Rinehart has made many contributions to the guitar world as a performer, teacher, and music editor. Completing studies at Western Michigan University and a Professional Music Training Diploma from Vancouver Community College, he studied lute repertoire and technique in London, England at the Early Music Centre with Anthony Rooley, Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North and Emma Kirkby.  From 1983 to 2003 he was a faculty member of the music schools at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Community College

CD Tracks:

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• 1. Recercar, Intavolatura di Liuto 1507a, fol. 51v-52r

• 2. Recercar, Intavolatura di Liuto 1507a, fol. 52v-53r

• 3. Recercar, Intavolatura di Liuto 1507a, fol. 44v-46r

• 4. Recercar de tutti li toni, Intavolatura di Liuto 1507a, fol. 40v-42r

• 5. Tastar de Corde, Intavolatura di Liuto 1508, fol. 6r

• 6. Calata a la Spagnola detta terzetini, Intavolatura di Liuto 1508, fol. 50v

• 7. Pavana alla venetiana, Intavolatura di Liuto 1508, fol. 16vr

• 8. Calata a la Spagnola, Intavolatura di Liuto 1508, fol. 47v

• 9. Piva, Intavolatura di Liuto 1508, fol. 23v

• 10. Et in terra (Josquin), Capirola Lute Book 1517, fol. 65r

• 11. Pavana alla Francese, Capirola Lute Book 1517, fol. 47r

• 12. Fantasia #69 (Ness)

• 13. Fantasia #82 (Ness)

• 14. Fantasia #52 (Ness)

• 15. Fantasia #40 (Ness)

• 16. Fantasia #10 (Ness)

• 17. Fantasia #33 (Ness)

• 18. Fantasia, Tabulature de leut v. 4 1553, fol. 8

• 19. Salterello Traditorella, Casteliono Lute Book 1536, fol. 38r

• 20. Fantasia Pauli Baroni, Phalese, Luculentum Theatrum 1568, fol. 2v

• 21. Saltarello bel Fiore, Casteliono Lute Book 1536, fol. 12v

• 22. Chiare, fresche e dolci acque (Arcadelt), Intavolatura di Liuto 1563, p. 15

• 23. Moresca detta la Burgamasca, Intavolatura di Liuto 1585, p. 14

• 24. Moresca detta la Canarie, Intavolatura di Liuto 1585, p. 11

• 25. Moresca detto il Matacino, Intavolatura di Liuto 1585, p. 13

• 26. Passemezzo detto il Commune, Novae Tabulae 1582, fol.C1v

• 27. Ricercar, Siena Lute Book c. 1580, fol. 31r-31v

• 28. Gagliarda, Intavolatura di Liuto 1593, p. 127

• 29. Alemano, Intavolatura di Liuto 1599, p. 25

• 30. Courante Francese, Intavolatura di Liuto 1593, p. 132

• 31. Fantasia Quinta, Intavolatura di Liuto 1599, p. 68

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