LUTE

The lute is a plucked string instrument with a rounded body and a long history in European, Middle Eastern, and North African music. In Renaissance and Baroque Europe it became central to solo music, song accompaniment, dance forms, and court repertory. MusicTales follows the instrument through figures such as Daniel Bacheler and Silvius Leopold Weiss, as well as later revivals by performers including Julian Bream.

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  THEORBO

  The first-ever music for solo theorbo by Kapsberger

  Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was an Italian composer of German origin whose creative activity occupied the transition...
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  LUTE

  Neapolitan lutier died in terrible plague that destroyed the kingdom

  The worst disaster to strike the kingdom and city of Naples in the 1600s was the plague of 1656. The outbreak of the...
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  Classical Guitar

  Lute fell into obscurity after the death of its greatest maestro

  Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750) was one of the most important composers in lute music history. Born into a...
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  OUD

  Endless possibilities for one of the world’s oldest instruments

  Joseph Tawadros was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1983 and moved to Australia three years later. Several members of his family...
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  Classical Guitar

  Bacheler's unusually bright lute music depicts Queen Anne of Denmark

  Daniel Bacheler (1572-1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Details of his life were obscure until Anne Batchelor...
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  LUTE

  Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive

  For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
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  LUTE

  Da Vinci's painting process depended on music

  Leonardo Da Vinci was a master of many skills: architecture, astronomy, painting, sculpture, mathematics, anatomy,...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute

  Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its...