Lute Music

Started by calyptorhynchus, July 03, 2025, 02:51:44 AM

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calyptorhynchus

I know we have threads on Dowland and Weiss and other composers who wrote lute music, but wanted to start this thread just to recommend an album I have just listened to.



It's available from Bandcamp for the usual download price (though it is only 41 minutes long).

But what playing, so accomplished, so deft, and the music is so beautiful!

Some famous names, but quite a lot of Anon.
'Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth.' Robert Burton

'...is it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of mens bodies?' Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing

Mandryka

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Whenever I see your name here, @calyptorhynchus I always think of my favourite word in English -- callipygian.

(Sorry, not the sort of reply you were hoping for . . .  I promise I will listen to this PDQ and hopefully redeem myself with a less puerile response!)
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darĂ¼ber muss man schweigen

AnotherSpin

Quote from: Mandryka on July 03, 2025, 03:04:31 AMWhenever I see your name here, @calyptorhynchus I always think of my favourite word in English -- callipygian.

(Sorry, not the sort of reply you were hoping for . . .  I promise I will listen to this PDQ and hopefully redeem myself with a less puerile response!)

What was that poem, the one dedicated to Venus Callipygos?

calyptorhynchus

Beautiful buttocks versus hidden beak. ;D

Hidden beak references the feathers around the base of the beak of the Black-Cockatoos of Australia (some of the world's largest parrots). I took that online persona because many years ago I was talking about fighting climate change denialists online and my wife said 'you're always squawking online'. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos are reasonably common around Canberra (but have now had their scientific name changed to Zanda).
'Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth.' Robert Burton

'...is it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of mens bodies?' Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing