Lute, theorbo and baroque guitar

Regina Albanez is a Brazilian musician talking about and demonstrating these early baroque instruments.

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Music

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• baroque
• music

[phocaskroon]

Her native language is portuguese.

In the movie she talks dutch (no german).

[Qpidon]

at 3:20, that bas lute, how in the world does one tune a thing like this? you need to be two people to tune this?

[phocaskroon]

I asked Regina. This was her answer:

Of course i dont need help , this instrument is not sssoooo big....my God !

[xYEAHxKYLEx]

my god the theorbo is huge how the hell do u tune that beast :)

cool vid

[thepiper84]

No no no Polluxgeminae. The vihuela and the guitar, are totally different to each other.

[m34nb34n]

WoW. Cool. I wish for a baroque guitar too. Yours looks  wonderful. That theorbo is very cool sounding too.

[TheJester1962]

1:40 Mooi stukje Kapsberger(Toccata). Uitstekende uitleg in mooi Nederlands! Groeten uit Java, Regina en muito obrigado.

[opus88888]

@phocaskroon What is the difference between an archlute and a theorbo? Thanks.

[Shadowtech666]

@ludustestudinis The only I play from Weiss are his technical etudes which are just that: technical. They do not posses in themselves any real musicalic other than understanding of form and meter. The fact that the 16th century music wasn't in a standardized format was because it sucked. This is before the standardization of the current western key signatures and the 12 tone octave. Why do you think we don't hear of any computers more or less prior to Dowland?

[ludustestudinis]

@Shadowtech666 What are you trying to say? That you are a better musician than Buxtehude and Weissbecause you need modern notation for understang the music? Or that Josquin lacked an understanding of chords and dissonances because he worked with part books?

Why shall the notation of music disqualify it. If you consider Weiss' music to be of poor quality, please argue on the basis of itself, not its notation. Funnily, in the 16th century tablature was the only score format.

[Shadowtech666]

@ludustestudinis If you have studied baroque music as I do there are very strict rules and patterns that are meticulously 'built' if you will using the music notation they were designed to be played on. For example, look at the Chiaconne from the 2nd Sonata in D minor by Bach. The way the note stems towards the end of the piece indicate the string the player is to be on. The same in the prelude to the 3rd Partita. And just look at the well tempered claviers. Impossible to tab.

[ludustestudinis]

@Shadowtech666 This is a common misbelief by keaboard players. Actually any decent lutanist can understand the chords from teh tablature and can infer melody lines, the structuring dissonaces, and can even sing the melody directly from the tablature. As you presumably know, both Bach and Buxtehude notated their keyboard music in German tablature, and do you really belief that they "lacked chordal understanding"?

[Haseeb2]

I never thought I would like the theorbo, but I listened to one of Pandolfi's pieces where it replaced the harpsicord and it sounded fantastic!

[realbanez1]

pieces played on this video:

passacaglia from weiss,(b.lute)... tocatta II ,from j. kapsberger,( teorbo) mariizapalos,canarios from sanz,( b. guitar)

[msutton2006]

Awww! I know it but I can't remember what piece it is. could someone please remind me what the first Bach piece she played was? It sounds beautiful.