Playing with Patterns on the Lute
A Study and Method for Playing Sixteenth-Century Divisions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197808726
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 279x216x19 mm
- Weight 1007 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 352 music examples 666
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Short description:
Playing with Patterns on the Lute is a practical guide for lutenists of all levels who want to learn how to ornament their music with sixteenth-century divisions. It gives a method for studying and learning this skill, about which there are no other such in-depth books. Written by leading lutenist and teacher Nigel North, Playing with Patterns on the Lute is full of examples and comprehensive analyses of divisions taken from original sixteenth-century sources of lute music.
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Playing with Patterns on the Lute is a practical guide for all lutenists who want to learn how to ornament their music with sixteenth-century divisions. Written for the Renaissance lute in G, it includes examples and exercises in French tablature, which is familiar to players around the world.
While methods for wind and stringed instruments by writers such as Diego Ortiz, Riccardo Rognioni, and Giovanni Bassano exist, there are no surviving methods from the sixteenth century for learning these skills specifically on the lute. There are, however, a wealth of examples in thousands of European lute tablatures. Through an analysis of the divisions used by sixteenth-century lutenists in these tablature sources, internationally renowned lutenist and teacher Nigel North sets forth a method for the modern lutenist and explains, with multiple examples, how renaissance lutenists approached their division making. Focusing on patterns from eleven tablature case studies from lutenist composers, including Hans Newsidler, Alonso Mudarra, Luis de Narvaez, Francesco da Milano, Vincenzo Galilei, Giovanni Terzi, Adrian Le Roy, John Johnson, and John Dowland, North presents more than one hundred examples and exercises from their music.
Table of Contents:
Part 1. Fundamentals of Divisions
Introduction
Graces
General Rules
Twelve Types of Divisions
Part 2. Tablature Case Studies
Tablature Case Studies: Introduction
Nach Willen Dein, Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537): Three Versions by Hans Newsidler (1536 and 1544)
Je prens en grè, Clemens non papa (ca. 1510-ca. 1555): As Set by Mattheus Waisell (1573)
Mille regretz, Attributed to Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521): As Set by Luis Narvaez (1538)
Greensleeves, Anon.: A Treble and Ground Duet
Passemeze (Passamezzo antico), Adrian Le Roy: A Briefe and easye instruction, London (1568)
Fantasia a dui liuti, Francesco da Milano: Castelfranco Ms. Extract
Contrapunto primo, B[ernardo] M[onzino]: Fronimo dialogo, Vincenzo Galilei, Venice, 1584, pp. 178-179
The Queen's Treble, John Johnson (ca. 1545-1594): A Treble and Ground Duet
Sir John Smith, his Almain, John Dowland: A Varietie of Lute-Lessons, London (1610)
Ricercata per viola bastarda, e lauto: Aurelio Virgiliano, Il dolcimelo (c. 1600-1620), Libro secondo
Chanson: Susanne un jour, Lassus: A Contrapunto Lute Duet in Bastarda Style by Giovanni Terzi (1593)
Part 3. Method
Cadences
Triads: Explanation and Examples
Static
Intervals
Guided Lessons in Building Patterns
Practice Piece
1: Twinkle, Twinkle
Practice Piece
2: Arbeau Pavane: Belle qui tiens ma vie
Ground
1: La Gamba (Cara Cosa)
Ground
2: Passamezzo antico
Ground
3: Passamezzo moderno
Ground
4: Romanesca
Anchor che col partire, Cipriano de Rore
Appendix 1: Ornamentation Treatises, 1535-1620 (for Voice, Wind, and String Instruments)
Appendix 2: The Original Parts for Lute 1 and Lute 2, G. A. Terzi (1593)
