Lute Compositions

Original music that explores and expands the voice of the lute
Some of the books of my (copyrighted) compositions for the lute can be freely downloaded. Hope you enjoy playing and performing my music.  Several of my lute compostions have been performed by Several of my lute compostions have been performed by Alberto Crugnola, Rob MacKillop, Stathis Skandalidis, Thomas Langlois, Dmitry Cherevko, David Van Ooijen, Stuart Walsh, Davide Donelli, Peter Sinnaeve, Carsten Timpe, Thomas Schall, Tobias Tietze, …

THE IMPROVISING LUTEPLAYER on MEL BAY
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This book is written to help you improvise in a contemporary way on the lute. Every musician can learn to improvise. You just need to learn and practice the right tools. Improvisation is not intimidating at all! Each chapter focuses on a different improvisational approach. Play through the examples at your own tempo but don’t feel as though you have to memorise them. This is not necessary nor desirable. When you feel ready, start practising improvising using the exercises given in the book. At first you will probably not be playing in strict time but you will be able to maintain a steady tempo as you become more experienced and confident. In every chapter there is a ‘Your turn’ section, following the examples. Here you are learning the tools of improvisation and it is important to invest time when it is ‘Your turn’. The aim is always to create your own improvisations but if this seems to difficult you could begin by composing some ideas on paper. The book will not deal in great detail with theoretical aspects. These can be found in thousands of books that have already been published. ‘The Improvising Lutenist’ is written with the lute at hand and is focused on improvising in a contemporary way on scales and modes, grounds and chord progressions. It is written for the six-course renaissance lute but if you have a lute with more courses you can just be creative with the additional basses.

Published by the UK LUTE SOCIETY

Harvest, 18 Lute compositions
YT performances
Free Samples
12 Two Part Compositions
Audio Reviews,YT Performances
Free Samples
10 Comp. For Solo Lute Vol.1
YT Performances
Free Samples
10 Comp. For Solo Lute Vol.2
Review, YT Performances
Free Samples
10 Comp. For Solo Lute Vol.3
Review, YT Performances
Free Samples
Poems, 20 Solo Lute Comp.
Reviews YT Performances
Free Samples
7 Peace Pieces
For Solo LuteReviews Lauten- Info, Le Joueur Du Luth YT Performances
Free Samples
25 Easy Lute Pieces
Reviews, YT Performances
Free Samples
7 Old Flemish Songs
for Solo Lute
YT Performances
Free Samples
3 Contemporary Lute Duets
Review
Free Sample
10 Lute Songs

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10 Blues For Renaissance Lute
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Easy Lute Duets
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Intervallic Lute Compositions
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Easy Lute Pieces Vol.1
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Audio/YouTube
Easy Lute pieces Vol.2
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Audio/YouTube Timpe)Review
Easy Lute Pieces Vol.3
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3 Nick Drake Songs Arranged for Solo Lute Download book
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IN A LANDSCAPE, by John Cage, arranged for 8 course lute by Gilbert Isbin on You Tube
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Interview with Silvia Amato p.53 in the NEMA Newsletter on my transcription of In A Landscape
(The National Early Music Association UK) http://www.earlymusic.info/…/NEMA_Newsletter_v2_2021.pdf

More than 20 of my  lute compoositions performed by Stathis Skandalidis on You Tube

Away Awhile, Floating, Gift and Seaong  by Andres Bonilla (on Segunda Jornada de Laudes y Guitarras Antiguas in Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires – Argentina,. and at Cultural Foundation in Cali – Colombia, Amalgama Cultural)

Interview in Nostalgia by David Van Ooijen 
Article in LSA  Quarterly by Susan King
Article in Hispanica Lyra N°25 by Silvia Amato 
Article and my transcription in Il Liuto by Silvia Amato on my arrangement of John Cage’s In A Landscape.
Pages 38 -49  Read the article in Italian,  Read the article in English

 

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