Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested to note in the caption for the Caravaggio Lute Player, reproduced among the Hermitage treasures, that TIME [Feb. 4] labels the subject a "Roman girl...
...inconsolable. In the morning when his ministers brought him the leading questions of the day, in the evening when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman who can charm away his grief, my star will rise...
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums. He took up his lute and made a hymn to the budding grove. The maiden, listening, was pierced to the heart by his music. She thought, "He must be seeking sincerity." That night she was sent to wait upon the emperor in his bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent...
...group of seven dances and secular vocal pieces, most attractive was Non e tempo d'aspettare byMarco Cara, one of the chief musicians at Isabella's Mantuan court. It was played here by lute and viol. The performance of vocal pieces by an instrumental ensemble is a perfectly authentic Renaissance practice...
Most of the audience seemed amused at the frequent lute retuning forced on Heartz in this group of works. But this problem has always plagued lutanists. A Frenchman once remarked, "I have more trouble keeping my lute fit for playing than maintaining my whole stable of horses...