Francesco da Milano - Fantasia N30 - Lute

A fantasia by "Il Divino" Francesco del Liuto. One of the most famous italian lutenist from the first half of the XVIth century, in Italy (but known all around Europe)
Lute is made by Stephen Murphy.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• lute
• luth
• laute
• liuto
• Francesco
• da
• Milano
• renaissance
• baroque
• medieval
• Valéry
• Sauvage

[groovygrishma]

brava!

[Luthval]

@groovygrishma

Thank you ;-)

[Mr98giuliano]

quante corde monta questo liuto?

[Luthval]

@Mr98giuliano

You mean how many strings or what kind of ?

There are 15 strings, one alone and 7 pairs, so 8 courses, and basses are copper wound and trebel carbon, except the first in nylon.

All the best

Val

[Steinbach1984]

@Luthval Speaking of which: Do you ever use the 7th and 8th courses? Are they required in any renaissance lute music?

[Luthval]

@Steinbach1984

With Italian early music (Da Milano, Capirola, Borrono) and early French (Le Roy, Morlaye, Attaingnant) you need only 6 courses. Late English (Dowland...) and late Italian (Molianro, Kapsberger) you need 7 or 8, ald late French (Ballard, Vallet...) you need 10 courses... 8 course lute is a compromise to play all this music (even 10 course music were you don't need all 10 most of the time)

V.

[Luthval]

@Steinbach1984

And to add one more info, for baroque music you'll need an 11 or 13 courses lute, and tuning is different (Weiss, Bach...) so it is not the same lute.

[debs4mysweetbaby]

wonderful!! :)

[Steinbach1984]

@Luthval Yes, as a musicologist I know a baroque lute is quite a different thing... But I didn't have a clear picture of all these intermediate stages. Thanks a lot!

[Luthval]

I'm using lute tabs ;-) (MP sent)

Val