Piece of the Month - April 2011

Any suggestions, corrections or other comments will be most welcome: just email martin@luteshop.co.uk.  Downloadable files are provided in Fronimo, Tab and PDF.  To hear my own recording of one or more of the pieces just click on the MP3 files.

Pavan Sans Per by Francis Cutting (Euing, f.32v.)

I had been aware of this piece long before I took up the lute, because it appeared in a selection of five pieces by Cutting arranged for the guitar by Brian Jeffery, but it's only recently that I've looked at the sources and played it on the lute.  For details of the other sources and biographical information on Cutting, see Jan Burgers' modern edition of the complete works (Tree edition, 2001).  CUL Dd.2.11 (now available in a magnificent full-colour facsimile from the Lute Society) also has a Galliard based on the pavan (not included here).

Downloads:

Pavan Sans Per:  1104.ft3; 1104.tab; 1104.pdf; 1104.mp3

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