The softness of his voice showed a deep love for his instrument, and somehow, I found myself listening in rapt attention. Thank you. This was educational!
I'm writing a DnD campaign and I was trying to decide what kind of instrument the NPC Bard I'm creating was gonna play. Went through a few Ideas and a lute just seemed very to the style of music I'd like in the campaign. Came to hear some songs, get a feel for a the tone of it. And this man made me fall in love with them. Music is a beautiful thing.
The green tea Dragon he plays only a baroque lute here, and despite mentioning two renaissance lute composers, all the examples he played are from the baroque literature, and his basso continuo improvisation was in the manner of the baroque continuo tradition. Dawg.
Cameron Childress any news on when the third book is going to be released? I’m dutch so we don’t here that kind of news right away. I’m planning on binch reading the second and third book.
I used to own Nigel North's CD featuring a collection of music on various baroque and other early guitars way back in 2000. Nice to see this video and be reminded of that great recording. :)
Nigel North - a truly great artist! The Bach transcription of the Suonata of S.L. Weiß, incidentally, is catalogued as BWV 1025. It is based on a work now found in the Saxon State Library - V.2841 - SC.47.
Galvin Recital Hall in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston IL. Beautiful sound, beautiful views out over Lake Michigan. In short, an awesome venue.
My 12th great grandfather was Sir Thomas Mace - lutenist. Came here to see what he was working with and how he would have played. Might just pick it up now in homage
Others that come to mind: Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford Suite Madame Blue by Styx Genesis Ch1 V32 by The Alan Parsons Project Epitaph by King Crimson
Bro it's 12:09 am Aug 31st 2022 and instead of sleeping I'm sitting watching how to play the lute. And I don't even have a lute or know where to go and get one God I should be sleeping
@@GiDD504 keeping all people who actually use the word 'dude' in their daily life outside the gate and locking the door (also, tools with Civil War reenactor beards (why? just nasty), imbeciles wearing flip flops, and dullards wearing backward baseball caps if they're above age eleven). Sad, sad, sad and more sad. Enjoy each other's company outside the gate!
General loss of interest in baroque music and the rise of the modern classical guitar around 1900. A big chunk of early music instruments have been revived around the 1970's . Before that the music of this era was still played with other modern instruments but the "historically informed" practice really took off not that long ago (playing music with the correct instruments and appropriate technique). This record also helped the popularity of early music back in the days : /watch?v=PrJwn2cIdcQ
@ Reddo: When piano was invented and popularized, it took over much of the music which had heretofore been played on harpsichord and lute. Piano projected sound better than either of those instruments, and because it freed both of the player's hands to play music rather than losing one hand - as a guitarist or lutenist must do to fret the notes to be played - it proved to be capable of more complex multipart invention. Piano is the most-complete of instruments in the sense that a skilled pianist can play melody, chords and a bass part. A skilled lutenist can play multi-part music as well, but because of the layout of the instrument and the fact that one hand must fret the notes to be played (unless one is striking an open string or string pair), it isn't always possible to play the melody, chords and a bass part all at once. A real Maestro of the instrument - such as Julian Bream - comes as close as anyone to replicating the fullness and complexity of a piano - but then again, he is Sir Julian Bream, one of the greatest musicians ever to have lived. The piano is a complex instrument whose music takes years to master, but it is forgiving in a way that lute isn't - in terms of things being right in front of you and easy to see and understand. It's a more logical instrument than guitar or lute. Lastly, regardless of instrument or musical style, tastes change and things come into fashion and then fall out of favor for a while until someone comes along and "rediscovers" it. In the case of classical guitar, it was Segovia who brought the instrument from being a folk form to the concert stage and the works of serious composers. In the case of lute, Bream is probably the man who has done the most to repopularize the lute and lute music over his long and illustrious career. Bream also had much to do with the revival of early music in general, works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Recently i've been really interested in playing the lute... I play the violin, but i want to learn more and i love so much the sound of the lute, i just cant seem to find anyone selling here in Brazil, should i just get a luthier to make one or just buy from the internet? Im just a begginer so i dont want to spend so much... Any suggestions will be appreciated!
The lute is a marvelous instrument with such a seductive timbre. Yet I don't imagine it for concert halls. More like for someone playing for himself or at the most for one or two friends in a small parlour, not for a long time. a few minute between a cup of tea and a cake.
It is much much more likely that "lute" is only the word chosen by the translator to approximate the meaning of the original word that signified an archaic stringed instrument that was probably not known to him (and probably long gone by then).
I am an old classical guitar player but even as a young child always loved the sound of the lute. Unfortunately I was discouraged to learn to play the instrument after a music history teacher in Leeds told us that the tuning of the instrument took longer than the pieces that were written for it. I play almost all of Weiss’s sonatas on the guitar with obvious limitations and would love to be able to play them on my lute. I was wondering if you have suggestions as to how I could learn at least the very basics using either on line or other sources.
I'm in the same situation as you; it's never too late is it? Just asking. Admittedly, tuning seems a horror. A six course might be a possibility, and still with its lovely sound; not weak but somewhat in the distance.
There are quite a lot of makers active today who could build a Baroque lute for you. Keep in mind that a substantial investment is involved, and if you order, you will be at the bottom of a waiting list that may be several years long. It may be simpler (from the point of view of import duties and taxes) if you choose a builder working in your own country or economic area. Here are some examples -- not necessarily recommendations: USA: www.gamutmusic.com/lutes-page mateus-lutes.com/baroque-lutes.html Canada: www.tomlinsonlutes.com/instr.html www.traviscareylutes.ca/thirteencourse.php Europe: luteshop.co.uk/about/instruments/ luthier.org/laudes.html www.renzosalvador.be/project/luth-baroque/ Please do your own research in detail before ordering. A carrying case is normally a separate purchase.
Really a common sequence. You can hear it in a Chaconne by Purcell (Z.627) , Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin and other pieces that i've forgot the names.
the audio on this must be off or something because when he was going through the tuning at 1:16, the notes he was playing sounds like a c# minor chord (notes were E C# G# as he was going through them), not a d minor. A c#m tuning still sounds quite lovely on this instrument though! I hope I can have one someday.
@@stevew2207 Yeah :/ the cheapest I've found was around 600€ and it's made in china. There is no entry level lute like there is guitars or even eastern ouds.
I have played nearly every hand-held stringed instrument, and own most of them. I struggle every day with attaining, maintaining and using adequate tuning with 4, 5, 6, 8 or 12 strings. Although it truly does sound wonderful, I cannot imagine tuning this God-awful nightmare!
Lute originally it's ِAssyrian War not Arabs , When the Arabs occupied our lands in Mesopotamia and saw this musical instrument and others, they did not know what they called it in their language, so they called this stringed instrument the name of the oud/ ut = wood rod As for the Assyrian origin, the name of this musical instrument is َQithara = harp, and from it a name for guitar was derived.
He explained the tuning of the Baroque lute very clearly in the video -- the fretted courses are ADFadf, with the unfretted basses stepwise down below those. It can be quite disorienting to have two minor thirds, when all your life you have played a tuning with four perfect fourths. There is no similarity in the chord shapes.
@@Libertylute i said it was tunned differently, but i ws wondering if by chance were, there were some similarities. thank you, though for answering. what i was geetting down to, i play guitar, so it would be a big change for me to learn lute.
The softness of his voice showed a deep love for his instrument, and somehow, I found myself listening in rapt attention. Thank you. This was educational!
Came here looking for just how the instrument sounded (making a bard in 5e), but I genuinely enjoyed! Well made!
Hahaha same!!
Ditto lol!
2 years later here i am doing the same thing LOL
Same here
SAME
came for the lute, stayed for the player.
I'm writing a DnD campaign and I was trying to decide what kind of instrument the NPC Bard I'm creating was gonna play. Went through a few Ideas and a lute just seemed very to the style of music I'd like in the campaign. Came to hear some songs, get a feel for a the tone of it. And this man made me fall in love with them.
Music is a beautiful thing.
Such a magnificent instrument that signifies the glory days of the Baroque era.
beepe esix it was the renaissance period dawg
The green tea Dragon he plays only a baroque lute here, and despite mentioning two renaissance lute composers, all the examples he played are from the baroque literature, and his basso continuo improvisation was in the manner of the baroque continuo tradition. Dawg.
@Kota Hyatt He plays a baroque lute specifically here, and music from the baroque period. A renaissance lute generally has fewer pairs of strings.
Nice men, great music, nice instrument. God bless him.
what a treat to hear sir north talk !
I want to learn to play the Lute like Kvothe from the Kingkiller Chronicles.
Cameron Childress that book brought me here also. Almost finished the name of the wind now... great book!
@@fr4nk45 glad to hear this book series is getting the attention it deserves. It's one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read.
Cameron Childress any news on when the third book is going to be released? I’m dutch so we don’t here that kind of news right away. I’m planning on binch reading the second and third book.
@@fr4nk45 apparently the third book's coming 2020 august, a seven year wait coming to an end
edit: Sir Savien also returned on the 7th year...
Lakshya Bakshi great! I’m glad I just now finishing the name of the wind. Seven years is a long time...
What a beautiful Sixtus Rauwolf baroque lute by master builder Lars Jonsson😮. Possibly the most exquisite instrument I've ever seen.
A wonderful and sensitive insight to this beautiful instrument.
A nice gentleman introducing a lovely instrument
I used to own Nigel North's CD featuring a collection of music on various baroque and other early guitars way back in 2000. Nice to see this video and be reminded of that great recording. :)
I came from The Witcher series where Jaskier play guitar chord on a lute xD
me too XD =D
Extremely beautiful instrument and sound!
Nigel North - a truly great artist! The Bach transcription of the Suonata of S.L. Weiß, incidentally, is catalogued as BWV 1025. It is based on a work now found in the Saxon State Library - V.2841 - SC.47.
Thanks !!!
3:26 such an adorable sound it has. It's a shame that noone plays it anymore...
Where can I find this kind of sound?
That was unexpectedly calming.
Imagine having every string untuned
I need not imagine as mine is...just bought it
Ouch
you..tune it
There is a saying that a lute player plays half of the time out of tune and the other half tuning his instrument ;)
Absolutely no problem if you are used to. Its a task for about 5min.
Such a beautiful instrument.
if Nigel doesnt finish what he started at 3:33 im gonna act up
@Repel7, I read this 1 year ago. And by the looks of it, you didn’t act up. Well, if this isn’t true, please hook us up!
Glad I wasn’t the inly one that felt this way. Such an amazing sample
Imagine the bard pulls out one of these, peer chords it, curses your mother and you fall down in absolute pain.
Jokes aside, this video was amazing!
that room sounds amazing.
Galvin Recital Hall in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston IL. Beautiful sound, beautiful views out over Lake Michigan. In short, an awesome venue.
My 12th great grandfather was Sir Thomas Mace - lutenist. Came here to see what he was working with and how he would have played. Might just pick it up now in homage
Dear Maestro excellent video
*13* *pairs* *of* *strings*
nuff said.
oh shit did he just say it is tuned to the key of D minor?
possibly the saddest key of all time.
11 pairs, the highest two courses on the baroque lute are single strings.
Actually F# minor is actually the saddest
Lol Spinal Tap
I wonder if he can play the love ballad "Lick my love pump" on that thing!
Sometimes only the highest string is a single, as is the case with my lute. @@chebghobbi
3:25 Hit the road Jack
Others that come to mind:
Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Suite Madame Blue by Styx
Genesis Ch1 V32 by The Alan Parsons Project
Epitaph by King Crimson
very informative and inspiring account of this important instrument,
Bro it's 12:09 am Aug 31st 2022 and instead of sleeping I'm sitting watching how to play the lute. And I don't even have a lute or know where to go and get one God I should be sleeping
Wonderful. Maestro.
That dude is playing a huge almond
do you really use the word 'dude' in your daily life? sad.
Ronette Pulaski gatekeeping language? Sad.
@@GiDD504 keeping all people who actually use the word 'dude' in their daily life outside the gate and locking the door (also, tools with Civil War reenactor beards (why? just nasty), imbeciles wearing flip flops, and dullards wearing backward baseball caps if they're above age eleven). Sad, sad, sad and more sad. Enjoy each other's company outside the gate!
@@BernardProfitendieu I'm tuning to the key of F# A# ♾ duderilionne
And it sounds great.
Thanks so much!!!
How can there ever be a "last" lute player? I imagine it falling out of popularity, but it going completely extinct? Why's that?
General loss of interest in baroque music and the rise of the modern classical guitar around 1900. A big chunk of early music instruments have been revived around the 1970's . Before that the music of this era was still played with other modern instruments but the "historically informed" practice really took off not that long ago (playing music with the correct instruments and appropriate technique).
This record also helped the popularity of early music back in the days : /watch?v=PrJwn2cIdcQ
@ Reddo: When piano was invented and popularized, it took over much of the music which had heretofore been played on harpsichord and lute. Piano projected sound better than either of those instruments, and because it freed both of the player's hands to play music rather than losing one hand - as a guitarist or lutenist must do to fret the notes to be played - it proved to be capable of more complex multipart invention. Piano is the most-complete of instruments in the sense that a skilled pianist can play melody, chords and a bass part. A skilled lutenist can play multi-part music as well, but because of the layout of the instrument and the fact that one hand must fret the notes to be played (unless one is striking an open string or string pair), it isn't always possible to play the melody, chords and a bass part all at once. A real Maestro of the instrument - such as Julian Bream - comes as close as anyone to replicating the fullness and complexity of a piano - but then again, he is Sir Julian Bream, one of the greatest musicians ever to have lived. The piano is a complex instrument whose music takes years to master, but it is forgiving in a way that lute isn't - in terms of things being right in front of you and easy to see and understand. It's a more logical instrument than guitar or lute. Lastly, regardless of instrument or musical style, tastes change and things come into fashion and then fall out of favor for a while until someone comes along and "rediscovers" it. In the case of classical guitar, it was Segovia who brought the instrument from being a folk form to the concert stage and the works of serious composers. In the case of lute, Bream is probably the man who has done the most to repopularize the lute and lute music over his long and illustrious career. Bream also had much to do with the revival of early music in general, works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
I have a Lute. Sadly it's not in playable condition. Really must sort that out at some point...
Did you sort it out yet?
Did you sort it out yet?
Did you sort it out yet?
did you?
@@milkwater1204 Not yet! Life has rather got in the way...
Very nice sound
Ein edles Video! Dieser Mann kann wirklich gut spielen. Ich danke Ihnen für dieses wundervolle Video!
Est ist sehr wunderbar das ich verstehe dein comment. Est ist recht. Sehr gut Musik.
Recently i've been really interested in playing the lute... I play the violin, but i want to learn more and i love so much the sound of the lute, i just cant seem to find anyone selling here in Brazil, should i just get a luthier to make one or just buy from the internet? Im just a begginer so i dont want to spend so much... Any suggestions will be appreciated!
The lute is a marvelous instrument with such a seductive timbre. Yet I don't imagine it for concert halls. More like for someone playing for himself or at the most for one or two friends in a small parlour, not for a long time. a few minute between a cup of tea and a cake.
Beautiful sounding.
A song I wrote called: She Took My Loot - She Played My Lute.
The halfling bard cometh
Two Face alas that is the very reason I came here to play a bard
But does it Djent?
beautiful instrument.
Indeed a unique instrument relatable to be studied 😢🎉🎉😂
Thank you. The lute is already mentioned in Psalms 92:3 . Therefore, I dare to assume that it is way older than what is mentioned in this video.
It is much much more likely that "lute" is only the word chosen by the translator to approximate the meaning of the original word that signified an archaic stringed instrument that was probably not known to him (and probably long gone by then).
I am an old classical guitar player but even as a young child always loved the sound of the lute. Unfortunately I was discouraged to learn to play the instrument after a music history teacher in Leeds told us that the tuning of the instrument took longer than the pieces that were written for it. I play almost all of Weiss’s sonatas on the guitar with obvious limitations and would love to be able to play them on my lute. I was wondering if you have suggestions as to how I could learn at least the very basics using either on line or other sources.
I'm in the same situation as you; it's never too late is it? Just asking. Admittedly, tuning seems a horror. A six course might be a possibility, and still with its lovely sound; not weak but somewhat in the distance.
thanks
i play piano right now
and into bach learning how he wan't jsut into piano or keyboard
thanks for mentioning sylvius weiss
i'll look into him
>bach
>keyboard
Bach was an organist and that was his preferred instrument most of the time.
Can I watch hours of this guy talking about and playing the lute please?
Great video Nigel. What kind of lute are you playing? What model is it?
I have a lute but cant find any good places to play it in australia
Where could I buy a lute like the one being used here?
There are quite a lot of makers active today who could build a Baroque lute for you. Keep in mind that a substantial investment is involved, and if you order, you will be at the bottom of a waiting list that may be several years long. It may be simpler (from the point of view of import duties and taxes) if you choose a builder working in your own country or economic area. Here are some examples -- not necessarily recommendations:
USA: www.gamutmusic.com/lutes-page
mateus-lutes.com/baroque-lutes.html
Canada: www.tomlinsonlutes.com/instr.html
www.traviscareylutes.ca/thirteencourse.php
Europe: luteshop.co.uk/about/instruments/
luthier.org/laudes.html
www.renzosalvador.be/project/luth-baroque/
Please do your own research in detail before ordering. A carrying case is normally a separate purchase.
3:32 playing a transposed "Che si può fare" by Strozzi? Or just a general bass sequence.. (descending thirds?)
Really a common sequence. You can hear it in a Chaconne by Purcell (Z.627) , Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin and other pieces that i've forgot the names.
@@Davmm96 I can add one, Cavalli's La Rosinda, Act 3 "Vieni, vieni in questo seno".
Today I found that it actually has a name. It's called "lament bass."
I've struggle with tuning my first string for five years. After five years I had to settle with dropping it a whole step.
this guy is cool
This istrument is awesome. But because you don t make a channel of this. There arent many people that play this.
Searched flute but its lute . WOW
3:33 NICEEEE
the audio on this must be off or something because when he was going through the tuning at 1:16, the notes he was playing sounds like a c# minor chord (notes were E C# G# as he was going through them), not a d minor. A c#m tuning still sounds quite lovely on this instrument though! I hope I can have one someday.
It's baroque tuning (a415), not "modern" tuning. Everything is one semitone lower than a440 tuning.
thank you for the clarification, that explains so much!
What song at 3:33?
that’s a lamento bass
@@anisometropie but whats the name of the song
@@user-wm8cc5ym7y He is just improvising on this bass
what is the name of the song in 3:30 ?
3:33 I need to learn this, but I don't have a lute, so I'm gonna transcribe it to guitar, if that's even possible, anyone wanna help?
I feel you mate. I bought a lute because of this... ^^
@@antocnl8345 I would but they are so damn expensive
@@stevew2207 Yeah :/ the cheapest I've found was around 600€ and it's made in china. There is no entry level lute like there is guitars or even eastern ouds.
@@antocnl8345 it annoys me that they are this expensive
@@antocnl8345 All I wanted to do was look into using a cool wacky instrument in my band
This was the only thing missing in the Adventures of Merlin
What was the German tablature called?
I don't know
I'm watching this wondering what else are we missing out on in 2022 that was around back in the 1600s
at 0:44 Deus Vult
I have played nearly every hand-held stringed instrument, and own most of them. I struggle every day with attaining, maintaining and using adequate tuning with 4, 5, 6, 8 or 12 strings. Although it truly does sound wonderful, I cannot imagine tuning this God-awful nightmare!
Groovy..
Need this for a Macbeth project
Idolo
Lute originally it's ِAssyrian War not Arabs , When the Arabs occupied our lands in Mesopotamia and saw this musical instrument and others, they did not know what they called it in their language, so they called this stringed instrument the name of the oud/ ut = wood rod
As for the Assyrian origin, the name of this musical instrument is َQithara = harp, and from it a name for guitar was derived.
But does it djent?
Phenomenal player. Check him out if you can.
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Lutes came from much older era - from the Assyrian, Babylonians and ancient hebrews time...these civilisation existed much before Arabs
that was the Oud, the Lute was an evolution of that that just added gut frets
Does anybody know what the tune is that he plays at 3:32? Thank you.
so the chords are quite different from say, a classical guitar? as i assume its tunned quite differently or is their some similarity.
He explained the tuning of the Baroque lute very clearly in the video -- the fretted courses are ADFadf, with the unfretted basses stepwise down below those. It can be quite disorienting to have two minor thirds, when all your life you have played a tuning with four perfect fourths. There is no similarity in the chord shapes.
@@Libertylute i said it was tunned differently, but i ws wondering if by chance were, there were some similarities. thank you, though for answering. what i was geetting down to, i play guitar, so it would be a big change for me to learn lute.
Que toque la de Despacito
👍
Came from twoset's violin charades guessing instruments
I want to learn to play a lute but man they're expensive
Here from kvothe
i'm here from skyrim
I'm here from that and DnD
I would love to learn how to play such an enchanting instrument but the amount of strings on that thing terrifies me..
it looks like an almond
Came here because of the book of Psalms....
Save some womens for the rest of us, mate.
he's spared their lives for now
wow here i am again 1 year later wow. OK the bastard told us about his lute but he did not play very many notes on his lute.
Jethro Tull brought me here.
I'm the 1.1k like
Im only here because of mordhau
Is this guy doctor strange or what. Also, who is shoeburt?!?!?!?!?!?!