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Blackdowns Early Music Projects: The Lute Family
A recital: 1000 years of music for lutes from oud to theorbo
Part of the Blackdowns Early Music - 2019 Spring Festival
Add to my Calendar 24-05-2019 18:30 24-05-2019 20:30 36 Blackdowns Early Music Projects: The Lute Family Lynda Sayce will bring a number of her favourite examples of members of the lute family to share in her ‘lute roadshow’, offering a history of the instrument, illustrated with 10 or so different and contrasting lutes covering almost a millennium’s worth of music. Each instrument will be described in its historical context and Lynda will then play each one so the audience sees and hears a huge variety of music ranging from a maqam on an Arabic oud to an excerpt from a high baroque suite. Each instrument is chosen with great care so that they make a stunning visual display, ranging from a tiny soprano lute to a 2 metre theorbo. Lynda Sayce is one of Britain's leading lutenists with over 100 recordings to her name, she read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford, then studied lute with Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music. She performs regularly as soloist and continuo player with leading period instrument ensembles worldwide, is principal lutenist with The King's Consort, Ex Cathedra and the Musicians of the Globe, and has broadcast extensively on radio and TV. She is also director of the lute ensemble Chordophony, whose repertory and instrumentarium is based exclusively on her research. All Saints' Church, Culmstock DD/MM/YYYYDetails
All Saints' Church
Fore Street
Culmstock
Devon
EX15 3JD
England
Programme
Lecture-Recital – Music from oud to theorbo
Performers
Lynda Sayce – Lecturer / theorbo
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Programme Note
Lynda Sayce will bring a number of her favourite examples of members of the lute family to share in her ‘lute roadshow’, offering a history of the instrument, illustrated with 10 or so different and contrasting lutes covering almost a millennium’s worth of music. Each instrument will be described in its historical context and Lynda will then play each one so the audience sees and hears a huge variety of music ranging from a maqam on an Arabic oud to an excerpt from a high baroque suite. Each instrument is chosen with great care so that they make a stunning visual display, ranging from a tiny soprano lute to a 2 metre theorbo.
Lynda Sayce is one of Britain's leading lutenists with over 100 recordings to her name, she read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford, then studied lute with Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music. She performs regularly as soloist and continuo player with leading period instrument ensembles worldwide, is principal lutenist with The King's Consort, Ex Cathedra and the Musicians of the Globe, and has broadcast extensively on radio and TV. She is also director of the lute ensemble Chordophony, whose repertory and instrumentarium is based exclusively on her research.
