Finnish theorbo ms. found by J. Tyler...
Arto Wikla
Tyler was teaching in an early music course in Finland. I had just
got my first theorbo and Jim tried to teach me the new instrument.
One day in my lesson, he told me that he had found an anonymous theorbo
manuscript in the "attic of the oldest house of the course center"...
The name of the piece happened to be "Preludio detta la Wikla". Very
strange! Did some of my ancestors have something to do with theoboes? ;-)
Anyhow the Preludio served well as an etyde...
You can find this piece, pdf and YouTube performance, in page
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Tiorba/
Arto
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Alain Naigeon
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Did you get a motivation because of the name? You play it very well,
I do like theorbe so much, also inside an orchestra to which it gives
incredible bass basements !
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Roland Hutchinson
> Years and years ago in the late 1980's (summer -87, -88?) James (Jim)
> Tyler was teaching in an early music course in Finland. I had just
> got my first theorbo and Jim tried to teach me the new instrument.
> One day in my lesson, he told me that he had found an anonymous theorbo
> manuscript in the "attic of the oldest house of the course center"...
> The name of the piece happened to be "Preludio detta la Wikla". Very
> strange! Did some of my ancestors have something to do with theoboes? ;-)
> Anyhow the Preludio served well as an etyde...
I can't help wondering if this source bears any similarity in provenace to
the "Highate Lyra Viol MS" that I "discovered" a couple of years ago when I
needed an additional variation to "Monusier's Alman" as found in the
Manchester Lyra Viol Book.
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Arto Wikla
>Did you get a motivation because of the name?
Well, you know, Jim is a good teacher... :-)
>You play it very well,
Thanks! :))
>I do like theorbe so much, also inside an orchestra to which it gives
>incredible bass basements !
This is true. And it has happened that I hear the theorbo in some
orchestral recordings even when it is actually not included. This has
happened more than 3 times, at least...
On the other hand, in the movie "Tous les Matins du Monde" Saint-Colombe
is playing viola da gamba all alone in a tiny cottage, and in a while
you hear the theorbo continuo there, too... ;-)
Arto
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Alain Naigeon
> On the other hand, in the movie "Tous les Matins du Monde" Saint-Colombe
> is playing viola da gamba all alone in a tiny cottage, and in a while
> you hear the theorbo continuo there, too... ;-)
Well, after all he was also seeing his lost wife for a while, then why not a
theorbo ? :-)
Roland Hutchinson
> "Arto Wikla" <wi...@wox-10.cs.helsinki.fi> a écrit dans le message de
> news: wikla.1223664007@wox-10...
>
>> On the other hand, in the movie "Tous les Matins du Monde" Saint-Colombe
>> is playing viola da gamba all alone in a tiny cottage, and in a while
>> you hear the theorbo continuo there, too... ;-)
>
> Well, after all he was also seeing his lost wife for a while, then why not
> a theorbo ? :-)
---Say, who was that who accompanied you last night?
---That was no accompanist, that was my wife.