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Sound Clips and MIDI Files

We are fortunate that there are now many recording clips of  lute music available on the web. Here is a personal selection made by the website editor. Those without broadband, should recognise that some of the files are quite large and will take some time to download.

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Jacob Heringman
 
Severino extract - mp3 - 733KB

Francesco extract - mp3 - 485KB

Gagliarda extract - mp3 - 501KB

 

Liz Kenny

Lute songs with Robin Blaze
Purcell: By beauteous softness
 

Jeni Melia and Chris Goodwin

ELIZABETHAN LUTE SONGS The dark is my delight (anon) 200KB

Nigel North

Collard "Go from my Window"

John Dowland "Earl of Derby, his Galliard"

 

   
     
Music Examples from The Lute (forthcoming)

Dowland's Dr. Case's Pavan and anonymous untitled Galliard. A computer-generated rendition of Examples 2a and 2b from Ian Harwood's forthcoming article: ' "A Lecture in Music, with the Practice thereof by Instrument, in the Common Schools": Observations concerning Mathew Holmes, his Manuscripts, Associates and Music at Oxford University, c1588-1627' (to appear in The Lute, xlv, 2005).

   

 


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