Michel Cardin
The Late baroque lute Seen through
This article should help to get a deeper understanding of our process of perception and mental organisation when we listen to a late Baroque lute interpretation, by examining the fundamental elements that are sonority in itself and the unique sound aesthetic of the instrument; we will try after, in the Appendix 2, to show the enormous preponderance of ornamentation in the musical discourse. In this view, there is maybe no better example than the music of Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), the great genius of the instrument.
The Late baroque lute Seen through S.L. Weiss
