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He has also performed in theatrical productions and accompanied dancers and storytellers.If you rose into high school with a desire to keep your hard won violin skills as an active part of your academic life but found no options for strings, what would you do?
But the greatest music education was gained by my desire to compose. McFarlane writes original music for Ayreheart that dispels previous conceptions of the lute’s limitations. Welcome to the Modern (post 1815) and Contemporary Lute Music Website. This sparked his interest in world percussion and getting back to basics. At one point, all the instruments that he used were MIDI and electronic. The Early Moderns hold parallel discourses on the metaphysical doctrines of love and music as theories of harmony. %PDF-1.3 If we look at the modern edition of Dowland’s solo lute music (Poulton & Lam, 1982) we find 41 pieces for six courses, 43 for seven (37 with the seventh at D and six at F), three for eight courses and five for nine. When I first started lessons with him, he actually told me that his job was to obsolete himself. With Ayreheart, McFarlane is reinventing the lute, giving the instrument its own renaissance, and bringing it to contemporary audiences with eclectic tastes.Ayreheart also performs all-Renaissance music concerts, creating arrangements enlightened in historical music making while joyously relating to real living people.~ Robert Aubry Davis, creator, producer, and host of Millennium of MusicGRAMMY-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane strives to bring the lute - the most popular instrument of the Renaissance - into today’s musical mainstream and make it accessible to a wider audience. (there is a plethora of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters for Lute, Oud, Chinese Pipa, and even harp on YouTube). The main flourishing of the modern lute revival stems from the founding of lute societies in the UK and overseas in the 1950s and 1960s, to research and promote interest in the instrument. McFarlane’s compositions draw influence from Celtic music, American folk, jazz, and bluegrass, making a case for the lute as a versatile instrument worth incorporating into modern popular music. For the last name, see Lutes (surname). I use both terms - modern (for the purposes of this site) is post 1815 and into the 20th century etc and Contemporary is what is being written today.This is an ambitious project and the listing will always be incomplete, so if you know of music for lute that should be included please fill in the Contact Form and it will be added in the next update. It is my belief that During the Renaissance and Baroque eras, lute players were songwriters and pop stars who weren’t afraid to improvise. Besides learning the mechanics of the bass, I gave myself a deep immersion into improvisation by playing along with with the radio, anything that would be broadcast - jazz, rock, funk, country, without reservation or judgement of the music, just playing along because I so desperately needed experience. I could’ve been easily cut from jazz band by the well established seniors, but I managed to pass audition just well enough to keep a position in the class.
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