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Lute duets are among the most attractive of Elizabethan consort pieces. Here are six of them transcribed for two guitars. Le rossignol imitates a nightingale, The Flat Pavane and The Galliard to the Flat Pavane are more serious, while My Lord Chamberlain’s Galliard may even be played as a duet for ‘one guitar four hands’. The ornaments in the Lesson are probably to be interpreted as mordents or short trills. John Dowland’s My Lord Chamberlain’s Galliard was printed in his First Book of Airs of 1597. The Lord Chamberlain of the time was George Carey, Baron Hunsdon (to whom the First Book is dedicated, and for whose wife Dowland’s alman My Lady Hunsdon’s Puff is named). It is marked ‘for two to play on one lute’, and it can indeed be played on one lute (or one guitar), but personally I find it musically more satisfactory on two instruments. The ‘Cantus’ part is in fact found by itself in one Elizabethan source, suggesting that the piece was even then sometimes considered to be for two instruments. This collection is one of a series of seven titles originally published by Oxford University Press, all of them lute music arranged for guitar by Brian Jeffery. The seven titles in the series, now all available from Tecla, are: Renaissance Popular Music (TECLA 0791) First published by Tecla in 1995. To order this item, you can use the easy PayPal buttons below if you wish. The low-cost shipping on this PayPal cart includes Priority airmail shipping to you worldwide. If you have a PayPal account (easy, worldwide, and free), you can choose whether to pay in euros or pounds or dollars worldwide. Paperbound TECLA 0797:
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