DavidJE - 8-7-2013 at 01:42 AM
Hello,
A while back I bought a CD with Munir Beken playing medieval and renaissance music on the oud, called "A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance
Music for Lute & Ud". I thought it could be fun to play a bit of this. Do any of you have recommended sites/resources for such sheet music?
Thanks!
Christian1095 - 8-23-2013 at 08:21 PM
Thanks David, I downloaded the album from Itunes yesterday and have been really enjoying it.
Jono Oud N.Z - 8-23-2013 at 10:55 PM
This album looks really interesting.
Thanks.
DavidJE - 8-23-2013 at 11:32 PM
Sure.
The album is very nice...of course very different from Turkish/Arabic music...but very nice nevertheless.
I'd be interested to get some good sheet music for medieval songs, as from what I've read, at that time the lute was more like the oud is
today...played with a plectrum and melodically. So it seems that the older/medieval music might be very well suited for the oud.
Jono Oud N.Z - 8-24-2013 at 01:36 AM
Hi.
I really like Medieval and Renaissance Western music too (as well as Baroque, Classical etc).
One of the best groups I have heard to use the oud with Medieval Western music is the Eduardo Paniagua group.
Wafir Sheik el-Din on oud.
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201104/listening.for.al-andal...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061596JE
This book is arranged for guitar but can be applied to the oud easily.
http://www.amazon.com/SONGS-AND-DANCES-MIDDLE-AGES/dp/0786630787
I can upload some sheets soon, I have a few good ones.
Just have to put onto Sibelius.
[file]27708[/file] (oud in Spain, played with risha, from Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th cent').
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/
DavidJE - 8-24-2013 at 01:58 AM
Thanks for the links! I'll get the CD and book.
If you do have a few sheets to upload, I'd really appreciate it.
I did look at the original notation for the Cantigas de Santa Maria here (http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/index1.html). But I'm not really sure how to read it. I plan on looking into that more in the future.
jdowning - 8-24-2013 at 03:44 AM
You will find some intabulations for medieval plectrum lute here - free downloads. Look at folders 'Dufay' and 'Medieval'
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tab-serv/tab-serv.cgi
jdowning - 8-24-2013 at 07:51 AM
The author of the Cantigas link posted goes into detail on how to read his transcriptions (see Neume Search under the Tools tab) although he does not
cover the subject in all of its specialist aspects.
A good book covering early notation (including Neumes) that might be of interest and practical value is "The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600" by
Willi Apel - available here as a free download
http://archive.org/details/notationofpolyph1953apel
DavidJE - 8-24-2013 at 08:59 AM
Thanks jdowning! Although, that might be more than I want to get into at the moment, with all I have to learn of maqam music. 