Lute News No. 91, October 2009

THE LUTE SOCIETY MAGAZINE

The Lute Society, Southside Cottage, Brook Hill, Albury, Guildford GU5 9DJ, Great BritainTel: (++44)/(0)1483 202159 Fax: (++44)/(0)1483 203088

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Registered Charity no. 1084704

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Lute harpsichords by Tihamér Romanek‘no one who has heard the beautiful and richly varied sound of these wonderful instruments can doubt their great importance for the

performance not only of Bach’s Lautenwerk music but of all eighteenth-century keyboard music’ – Editorial, Lute News 91.

Photographs, © 2007, András Kovács / ANDREII-PICTURES www.andreii-pictures.com

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You are invited to comeYou are invited to comeYou are invited to comeYou are invited to comeYou are invited to come‘Dancing to the Lute’‘Dancing to the Lute’‘Dancing to the Lute’‘Dancing to the Lute’‘Dancing to the Lute’

A special meeting of the Lute Society and Early Dance CircleSaturday 21st November, at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA

See the dances – hear the dances – dance the dances

Live demonstrations of the principal renaissance and baroque dances from 10.30amto the music of the lute, with a grand finale from 4 pm – take the floor to dance

the Inns of Court measures, with a live six-piece Elizabethan consort.

Picture: Villa Borghese: Il Saltarello (1790) by Charles Grignion (1754-1804), in the Lower Bedroom Tower at Powis Castle, pen and ink wash, photographed with the kind permission of the Powis Estate Trustees and reproduced by kind permission of NTPL/Powis Estate Trustees. The instrument is a mandolin, not a lute, but

echoes a long tradition in lute inconography, in showing a single couple dancing to a lute, with hand-held percussion.

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