French Baroque Lute Duets in the 17th Century
Lecture written and delivered for the English Lute Society (London) on May 9th 2015
(...Lute duets in the second half of the 17th century were not really duets, but most of the time they were solo pieces to which a "contrepartie" was added, often composed by another musician. If we refer to Furetière's dictionary (1690) we read this definition of contrepartie : s.f. Terme de Musique, qui se dit de deux parties opposées. Le dessus et la basse sont deux contreparties. The practice consisting in writing a second part for a pre-existing piece is not new in the period we are interested in. As early as the sixteenth century it was common practice to do so and a few examples even found their way to the printer's : Johannes Matelart's second lute parts for a few of Francesco da Milano's Fantasies or Ricercars are nothing but "contreparties", with the advantage that we do know the names of both musicians, the original composer and the one who composed a complementary part, which is far from being the rule for later...
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