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The history of German written lute music started with Arnolt Schlick (c. 1460–after 1521), who, in 1513, published a collection of pieces that included 14 voice and lute songs, and three solo lute pieces, alongside organ works.
The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. [140] During the Baroque music era, the lute was used as one of the instruments which played the basso continuo accompaniment parts. It is also an accompanying ...
The consort song, popular in England, is considered to be closely related to the lute song. This was an earlier strophic form of music that was for a solo voice accompanied by a small group of string instruments. [1] In France, the chanson is a precursor to the lute song or air de cour. Collections of airs de cour were used in other countries ...
This is a list of composers who wrote for lute and similar period instruments: theorbo, chitarrone, vihuela etc. Composers who worked outside of their country of origin are listed according to where they were most active, i.e. German-born Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is listed under Italy. Within sections, the order is alphabetical by surname ...
In 1964 he received the Tovey Prize for research into the sources of English lute music. [2] He performed and recorded lute music with consorts such as the Campian Consort which he founded in 1967. [2] Harwood's research identified Mathew Holmes as the author of a collection of Elizabethan lute books, described as being more important than the ...
Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.. Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, Weiss was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day.
Two major influences on Dowland's music were popular consort songs and the dance music of the day. [13] Most of Dowland's music is for his own instrument, the lute. [14] It includes several books of solo lute works, lute songs (for one voice and lute), part-songs with lute accompaniment, and several pieces for viol consort with lute. [15]
Amati was originally a lute maker, but turned to the new instrument form of violin in the mid-16th century. He was the progenitor of the Amati family of luthiers active in Cremona, Italy until the 18th century. Andrea Amati had two sons. His eldest was Antonio Amati (circa 1537–1607), and the younger, Girolamo Amati (circa 1561–1630 ...