| Damiani Andrea - Method For Renaissance Lute (english Version)
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Pre-shipment lead time: On orderTraduction Doc Rossi Compositeur : Damiani Andrea Instrumentation : Luth Publication Date: 1999 Series: Teoria e Didattica della Musica (Theoretical and Educational Texts) Pages: pp. 208 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 - Chords played with p * 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
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