I found this video to be very interesting, and so i must thank you for uploading it. I'm 17 and my dream is to be able to take up the lute someday. You inspire me a lot 🖤
@Justin.R.Ferris
Жыл бұрын
Take up the Lute, mate! Rent one if possible (might have to be 18 though)
@themysticlamb2956
6 жыл бұрын
Wow I somehow felt that i was watching a living old masters painting. Reminds me particularly of Velazquez, because of the lighting, the background (with the lute and plant as a still life scene) and you dressed all in black. Amazing video, please keep it up!
@swedishguyonyoutube4684
5 жыл бұрын
Abso-lute-ly (sorry, couldn’t help myself) wonderful video!
@thormusique
10 ай бұрын
Bravo! You've said all this so well and so beautifully. As a lutenist (and guitarist) myself, I heartily agree. I'm also happy I stumbled upon your channel, even though I'm seeing this video several years after it was made. All the best to you, cheers!
@meg7617
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I love how you emphasized the history behind the instrument, I've been really looking for a video with a content like this.
@MarvinLapsus
6 жыл бұрын
As an early music lover, nothing would make me happier than to be able to donate, as your videos are not only well-thought and technically proficient, but also quite entertaining. Sadly enough, being a kind of starving artist myself makes it difficult. I chose the path of writing and philosophy, which are by no means popular nowadays, and I can relate all too well to almost everything you say. One thing I especially like about your videos' approach is that you don't fall into the trappings that make the discourse of most people that decide to speak about matters that are not popular. When talking about matters like "specialist" music, philosophy, "hard" science and many other highly technical fields, most communicators decide to entrench themselves in a holier-than-thou attitude, like it was everybody's duty to know courtly Italian renaissance music, turn-of-the-century German hermeneutics or the different approaches to quantum uncertainty. On the other hand, you try to understand why certain things had stopped being popular, never seeking to impose the passion you feel about them as something that ought to be shared by everyone, and I can only commend you for that. I also wish you good luck with your Patreon, because I have the feeling that it's always difficult to earn a living from voluntary collaborative projects, and I'm quite sceptical about their overall feasibility, at least as a large-scale "business" model. But at least we can dream, and I hope that you succeed. Anyway, thanks for your videos!
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Elsterfeder, thank you for this comment and the kind words. I'm very glad to hear that my efforts to avoid this pitfall of, as you say, "entrenching oneself" come across and are appreciated. Don't worry about the Patreon-thing. The idea is that one can donate something if the means are available, there really is no need to donate when money is scarce and the amount spent is not perceived as minuscule (hence the coffee-analogy). In any case my videos will remain free and accessible to anyone who cares to watch them, I don't see any point in putting them behind a paywall. All in all, it's an experiment for me, too of course and I don't know where it will lead. But for now I'm hopeful. (Well, is there a choice, really? ;-)
@callenclarke371
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic content! Well done indeed. Possibly the best Lute Video on KZitem.
@stevenhughes5283
4 жыл бұрын
Echt tolles Video, hat mir wirklich gefallen. Intelligent und macht gleichzeitig spaß, super gemacht
@CorinneMcKay
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I just signed up as a patron!
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Corinne, that is wonderful to hear! Thank you!!!
@BernardProfitendieu
5 жыл бұрын
there's a sucker born every minute!
@MitchBoucherComposer
4 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. I aim to compose early music and I've taken everything you've said into account. I wish I could donate as well, but I'm certain I can share this video on platforms where you will gain more followers.
@HouseJambo
4 жыл бұрын
I want to learn the lute....but they are so expensive. :
@boblob2003
4 жыл бұрын
If you're in Europe or North America, check out a Lute Society in your country- you can rent a lute for a relatively small monthly fee and see if you like it.
@HouseJambo
4 жыл бұрын
@@boblob2003 Thanks buddy!
@MrLuridan
8 ай бұрын
@@HouseJambo Hello! Late to the party, but…..Did you ever get one?
@HouseJambo
8 ай бұрын
@@MrLuridan No, never did. But I still think about it periodically. They are still unaffordable for me, plus I would need to cut some things out of my days to make time for practice. Not that I have a problem with that. It’s just a true statement. It’s mostly that all my money is tied up and I can barely pay my bills month to month.
@MrLuridan
8 ай бұрын
@@HouseJambo Good luck to you. I hope things work out.
@SamuelLawson
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis, and beautiful video! I only disagree with the strictness of your assertion that Sting's recording failed to do Dowland any justice on the basis that Sting did in fact raise the profile of the lute higher than it has been for two centuries, and Edin Karamazov (who did almost all of the actual playing) is undeniably a master. It was dark and beautiful and possibly more honest in the portrayal of Dowland's story - of course Dowland wasn't the equivalent of a rock star with mass appeal, but he was a star within the circles of aristocracy -- however, a musician within the circles of aristocracy was (and continues to be) a very dark and gritty place to exist. A person of Dowland's standing knew that the sword of Damocles was ever suspended above his head, hence his flight to the continent. I think Sting told that story quite well. Of course he and Mr. Karamazov made stylistic decisions that Dowland probably would not have made, but I'm not a great proponent of restricting musical interpretation strictly to a composer's original intent. But really, this digs into the persistent musicological questions: what is, semantically, authenticity? What is its relevance? And what is the role of authenticity in early music performance? I don't believe there is a single best answer to any of those questions. It could be said that an authentic performer plays to the tastes of one's audience. Dowland did that, and when he found he couldn't because of religious ostracisation, he sought out an audience elsewhere to whom he could play. I think in Sting's later career, he might have been in the midst of a similar search, albeit for reasons other than religion. As a musicologist and performer of early music myself, I feel like "Songs from the Labyrinth" stands well on its own merits. But please don't take me as a senseless critic of this video overall -- this was really excellently done, and it is a completely valid analysis of the relationship of the class system to prevalent styles of music.
@bobbiemay6867
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t talk about it, play it!
@zDonaldson1
Жыл бұрын
I love your playing. What's the Dal'aquila that you play in this video? Thanks
@nitmo8557
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wanting to learn to play the baroque lute. Have bought many expensive books that teach really, not very much. I’ve already given up on finding a local teacher. There simply are none. Any recommendations? Let’s start with how to tune the instrument and thank you.
@jeremykindall748
4 жыл бұрын
Try watching the How-To videos from LuteDuo. They're great!
@gilbert6023
3 жыл бұрын
Call me, i can Help...
@nitmo8557
3 жыл бұрын
@@gilbert6023 how do I call you?
@Justin.R.Ferris
Жыл бұрын
See Andreas Martin
@greetschamp1435
6 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull idea, I want to support you too and will spread the news of this new aproach among lutenists in Belgium.
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! (PS I sent you an email!)
@jacquescarroll-leitao877
2 жыл бұрын
This is a gorgeous Ricercar by Dall’Aquila played in this video! Where is it possible to find the tablature or sheet music to learn this?
@Justin.R.Ferris
Жыл бұрын
I too have been trying to find it.
@MrGREYMATTERS
6 жыл бұрын
Truth (and welcome back). You have indeed presented the sad and unfortunate state of the prevailing zeitgeist. The fact is that the "dumbing down for the masses" has gotten much worse over time. Things are so bad, in fact, that it has me questioning (and regretting) my pursuit of the artistic muse. Maybe I should have redirected my interests years ago into something more financially lucrative. Ahhh, well...
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Henry, thanks for the comment and your ongoing interest in memo! All the best!
@Roberto_MR
6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, thanks for the information.
@damidevil5257
6 жыл бұрын
Do you have any recommendations on learning how to pluck with your fingers so rapidly? I had that struggle with ukulele and I'm scared it will carry over if I try to play the lute lol.
@karachaffee3343
Жыл бұрын
The Baroque Lute is the work of the devil . I know this because I am recently learning to play it .
@malahamavet
3 жыл бұрын
to me the lute is relevant, that's why I found this video. and I would love having one if I had enough money
@tonyelectionfraud669
2 жыл бұрын
I typed in "should I buy a lute" and this is what I got. I think I'm gonna do it. My only worry is maintenance - I can fix my guitars and basses but the bend at the top of the lute's fretboard has me wondering.
@WS-hd5zs
6 жыл бұрын
Sting "failed to do John Dowland's music justice"? What bullshit. Unlike the happy-clappy, lightweight and ultimately modernist readings of the "Early Music" movement, Sting brought a darkness or melancholy back to Dowland's music that it clearly demands, but which is absent from anything so-called "historically informed".
@SuperMutantSomething
6 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite instruments! I find myself going back to listen to renaissance music, like 'Chaconne' by Bertalli. I wish I could get a hold of this instrument and do old Norwegian folk songs, like the ones by Harald Foss.
@cancionerodelpalacio
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks again Lukas- I particularly liked your description of how the music of the lute moves you. My feeling exactly. The lute demands intimacy; it can never reach out and grab the listener’s intestines and pull- like the Wagnerian excess of hip hop or heavy metal or... Wagner. The listener must enter of his own volition. And this requires a conducive environment- one often hard to find in our modern world. What has been lost is the humanist intuition that one should reach for that which is our noblest potential. This was the explicit aim of much lute music-particularly of the 16th century. This is what moves me. But, I feel a strong desire to take the lute out from the bel jar of the church/concert hall and back into the real world, but not digitally. Do you have any thoughts or experiences when this has worked for you.
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Dear Philip, I think you are bringing up a key point there and one that is not easy to deal with. I try to refrain from whipping the lute out at parties or bringing it along to campfires. For one a guitar tends to do a better job in these situations for various reasons and secondly the unique qualities of a lute don't really come into play there anyway. A couple of times I had opportunites to give private concerts in clients' homes for various occasions and those were usually my best "concert"-experiences, partly because they were so different from a "concert" and the lute really felt in its element there. And after all we can imagine these more private settings to be where the lute was used during the years when it thrived. For this to work on a professional level there of course needs to be a certain community of music-lovers who are interested enough in this music and also simply able and willing to finance this to the point where the musician can "afford" to take the time to devote it to each client individually and still be able to pay the rent when they return home.
@squigglesquaggle6553
2 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@jasonsummit1885
5 жыл бұрын
It is better to be a lutenist than a racket or crumhorn player!😂 (i actually want to learn to play the archlute)
@Ogurets123
Жыл бұрын
😂
@masonmizula2225
4 жыл бұрын
Where can I buy a lute at a reverently good price?
@acardboardbox3861
3 жыл бұрын
Wondering the same thing
@christofferniemonen8872
3 жыл бұрын
I'd buy a kit and do some DIY
@christofferniemonen8872
3 жыл бұрын
I would buy a DIY kit
@mastertigra7
3 жыл бұрын
What's the name of melody at 3:13 ?
@mathiasrosel224
6 жыл бұрын
Wunderbare Idee!
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Danke Mathias! Ich bin auch echt gespannt, wie das so gelingt. Weil es ja so eine brandneue Entwicklung ist, traue ich mir nichtmal eine ungefähre Erfolgs-Prognose zu. Aber an die Zukunft des "Digitalen Mäzenentums" als Prinzip glaube ich fest!
@mathiasrosel224
6 жыл бұрын
Das Prinzip des crowdfunding zeigt ja, dass es geht.
@nathanpiazza9644
6 жыл бұрын
"sting didn't do justice to John Dowland's music" please explain
@memomusica
6 жыл бұрын
Sure: Sting paints this picture of Dowland being a sort of Elizabethan-era equivalent to a pop star singer-songwriter today, except his guitar was a lute. What supports this idea is that there is a general perception of people and life in »ye olde Englande« being »more simple«, hence the gritty delivery. The reality was, that the leather-jacketed everyman would hardly ever get to hear someone like Dowland perform this music. He existed in a whole other societal sphere, to get a feel of what these people were like, just google »Nicholas Hilliard portraits«. The thing is: interpreting this music, as many have done, in a sort of sexless »grandma« way gets it just as wrong. These aristocrats lived in a Game-of-Thrones-win-or-die type scenario, they were fierce, one wrong step could absolutely get you at the wrong end of an intrigue. But they were certainly anything but straight-forward.
@bombsoldier9866
5 жыл бұрын
What's the song at 3:13
@BernardProfitendieu
5 жыл бұрын
Sugar, Sugar
@odinstemple1832
4 жыл бұрын
@@BernardProfitendieu hahahaha (SONG) we don't talk about that around here... Heresy
@Welther47
Жыл бұрын
You discuss a very human trait; if something isn't popular then it's fair game for ridicule and scoffing. That's why we have stereotypes: men like beer and sports, but only manly sports. If you don't at a man, then you better watch who you tell so.
@nitmo8557
3 жыл бұрын
How do I call ?
@bobbiemay6867
3 жыл бұрын
Take your lute lessons from Thomas Dunford not Sting!
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