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unusual facts about Lute



1598 in music

Jan Vencálek, composer for lute and voice (date of death unknown)

1604 in music

John DowlandLachrimae, or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate pavans, with divers other pavans, galliards and allemands, set forth for the lute, viols or violins, in five parts

Abdolvahab Shahidi

Abdolvahab Shahidi (Persian: عبدالوهاب شهيدی ) was an Iranian barbat player and singer born on 1914 in Meymeh (of Isfahan province).

Alfonso Ferrabosco

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (1575–1628), English composer, son of Alfonso senior, also a singer, and performer on the lute and viol

Amazing Blondel

They are sometimes categorised as Psych folk or as Medieval folk rock, but their music was much more a reinvention of Renaissance music, based around the use of period instruments such as lutes and recorders.

Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York

The ensemble performs on "silk and bamboo" (sizhu) instruments—a classical instrumental grouping dating from the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911) that includes various dizi (bamboo flutes), sheng (mouth organ), pipa (lute), zhongruan (alto lute), guzheng (zither), huqin (fiddles), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer).

Basil Lam

Lam published many articles and books, specializing on Bach, Handel and Beethoven, and edited various musical scores, including editions of Handel's Messiah and the lute music of Dowland.

Branle

Settings for this appear in the lute anthology Le trésor d'Orphée by Anthoine Francisque (1600) and the ensemble collection Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius (1612).

Cantore al liuto

After Petrarca, in the Renaissance age, the most famous singers at the lute certainly were Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Ippolito Tromboncino and Marchetto Cara - whose gift as interpreters are highlighted in The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione.

Dalbergia nigra

It was used in instruments as long ago as the late Renaissance and Baroque eras, when luthiers used it for lute backs (ribs) and various parts of other stringed musical instruments.

Daniel Fischlin

Fischlin has a BFA in Music Performance, an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Musicology/English Literature; Concordia University), and a PhD in English Literature (York University), with a dissertation on the English lute song directed by Richard Hillman.

Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta

Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta is a Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia, who pioneered the research and documentation of the akonting, a Jola folk lute, as well as the related Manjago folk lute, the buchundu, in the mid-1980s.

Early music of the British Isles

A talented lute player he introduced French chansons and consorts of viols to his court and was patron to composers such as David Peebles (c. 1510–1579?).

Edin Karamazov

Recent collaborations with Sting (in the field of 16th century music) resulted in the album and film Songs from the Labyrinth, devoted to the lute-songs of John Dowland.

El Lute / Gotta Go Home

The ABBA-esque pop melody "El Lute" told the true story of Spanish outlaw Eleuterio Sánchez who was still in prison at the time the song was released, though he was shortly to be released following a pardon.

Elizabeth Farr

Farr has recorded a number of baroque composers for the Naxos label, notably Byrd, Philips and d'Anglebert on harpsichord, and a recording of Bach's lute-harpsichord music.

English art song

Michael Cavendish (c.1565-1628), published one volume of madrigals and lute songs in 1598

Epiphone

Epiphone started in 1873, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey), where Greek founder Anastasios Stathopoulos made his own fiddles and lutes (oud, laouto).

First Bank and Trust Tower

In front of the main entrance on Poydras Street are a pair of bronze sculptures by Enrique Alférez depicting David and a lute player.

Francesco Spinacino

His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: Intabolatura de lauto libro primo and Intabolatura de lauto libro secondo (both 1507).

Hans Neusidler

Hans Neusidler (also Neusiedler, Newsidler) (c. 1508-09 – February 2, 1563), was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance.

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

It stars Oliver Reed as disillusioned London advertising executive Andrew Quint, who revolts against his boss, Jonathan Lute (Orson Welles), and escapes into Swinging London.

Jean-Baptiste Besard

In 1597 he was in Hesse where he may have taught the lute in addition to practising medicine and law.

Joachim Thibault de Courville

Joachim Thibault de Courville (died 1581) was a French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre, of the late Renaissance.

Joan Ambrosio Dalza

His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508).

John Danyel

His surviving works include "Coy Daphne Fled", about the nymph Daphne and her fate, and "Like as the lute delights".

John Schneiderman

Schneiderman is currently the director of guitar and lute studies at the University of California, Irvine, and nearby Irvine Valley College, and he has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Julien Perrichon

He was a lute player for Henry IV of France, and famous enough to be mentioned by Marin Mersenne in Harmonie universelle (1636) as one of the finest musicians of the preceding age.

Kadambari

It is found to originate from the Vina (lute) of a heavenly and lustrous damsel dressed as an ascetic, sitting in a temple of Lord Shiva.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

The owls, carrying Mrs. P in Twilight's lute, fly towards the sea of Hoolemere where a murder of crows chaotically guides them to the legendary shrine and gateway of the Guardians, kept by an oracular echidna (Barry Otto), who provides comic, but accurate, descriptions of the quintet and guidance to the object of their quest.

Loten Namling

Based in Switzerland, the artist has travelled worldwide with his lute, singing the songs of the 6th Dalai Lama, Milarepa, as well as other traditional songs, and his own songs.

Mastan Ensemble

The instruments employed by this Ensemble include Daf, Dayereh, Kamāncheh, Lute, Reed, Robab, Santour, Tār and Tonbak.

Matthias Klotz

At the age of 12 in the years 1672 - 1678 took apprenticeship with master Giovanni Railich (Johann Railich), an Italian lute maker at Bottega di Lautaro al Santo in Padua, Italy.

Music of Guinea-Bissau

The Balanta play a gourd lute instrument called a kusunde, similar to the Jola akonting but with the short drone string (A#/B) at the bottom rather than the top.

Peter Croton

He began his lute studies with Loris Chobanian at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and continued with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Scotland in the early modern period

James V, as well as being a major patron of sacred music, was a talented lute player and introduced French chansons and consorts of viols to his court, although almost nothing of this secular chamber music survives.

Sinners Never Sleep

Jack Howard – Lute (on "No One Does It Better")

Table-book

English sources contain many lute pieces and works by John Dowland, including his Lachrimae.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

The Lute and the Scars

The stories in The Lute and the Scars were left out of the original collection that made up The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983).

Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still (Dowland song), an English lute song by John Dowland, from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603), no. 2

Toyohiko Satoh

Two years later, in 1970, he recorded the first LP devoted entirely to the solo Baroque lute; since then he has recorded extensively for Philips, Telefunken, EMI, Harlekijn, and Channel Classics Records.

Vincenzo Gamba

Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) mentions Vincenzo Galilei’s skill as inventor of musical instruments and in particular his construction of a "lute made with such art that, playing it so excellently, he extracted continuous and goliardic voices from the cords as if they were issuing from an organ's pipes...".

W. W. Fosdick

Fosdick’s lyrical poetry such as Ariel, The Maize The Catawba,The Thrush, The Pawpaw, Light and Night, and Lute and Love often reflected his Mid-Western roots and at times were put to music by composers like Poulton and William Vincent.

Yasunori Imamura

His solo recordings include the complete lute works by Johann Sebastian Bach, three volumes of lute sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss, pièces pour théorbe by Robert de Visée, and the complete lute fantasies by Simone Molinario.

Zoran Madžirov

He founded the group Les Barons Karamazoff in 1987 with Edin Karamazov (guitar, lute) and Sasa Dejanovic (Guitar).


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