Epic Instruments of the Middle Ages: Studying the Medieval Lute ● Marc Lewon, Schola Cantorum Basel
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- Introducing medieval plectrum instruments (lute, gittern, citole, cetra, cythara & Co) that can be studied at the Medieval-Renaissance Department of the 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬 with 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐋𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐧: www.fhnw.ch/de.... The application deadlines are every year at the end of January, check out the details here: www.fhnw.ch/de...
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1:39 The 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐞 / Plektrumlaute (maker: Richard Earle, Basel 1989)
2:53 The 𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 / Quinterne (maker: Richard Earle, Basel 1987)
4:10 The 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞 / Citole (maker: Martin Uhlig, Leipzig 2020)
5:07 The 𝐂𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚 / Cetra (maker: Julian Behr, Grenzach-Wyhlen 2012)
6:19 The 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚 / karolingische Cythara (maker: Martin Uhlig, Leipzig 2013)
7:13 The Plectrum Lute: "𝐌𝐲𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐝 𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞" (Wolfenbüttel Lute Tablature)
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Seriously, these are so advanced compared to modern instruments. Electronics just try to imitate, but never get close. The sound is so absurdly full and dynamic
Being his student must be truly remarkable!! And the song!! Absolutely beautiful!!!
As a renaissance lutenist, I am intrigued by the sound of the medieval lute - it's so different in so many ways. I love the sound of the cetra, it sounds almost modern - there's a bit of an electric guitar vibe/reverb going on there! Thanks for the informative video.
Love these instruments.
I enjoyed your presentation at the “Basel convention” last year!! I enjoyed this video just as much!! Many Thanks from New Orleans!
They certainly weren't 'Dark Ages' musically, this was when modern music began! Music, specifically harmony, is in fact one of the great achievements of the Middle Ages (you will obv know that, Prof Lewon, but a lot of people don't). Thanks for the tour of these instruments. It's a shame there isn't more of your music available on CZcams.
dark age is merely a archaelogical crutch to point out theres very scarce records. very misinterpreted.
What a fantastic material! Thank you for sharing, professor. I'm currently doing my Master's on lute performance in Geneva and just recently bought a gittern. I hope one day I'll have the opportunity of studying Medieval Music with you, I'll keep an eye out for any masterclasses or summer courses you might be teaching in Basel and the region :) Best wishes
Very educational, Thanks for sharing.
Great professors, teachers, students and alumni! And very nice and friendly people as well! I had the opportunity to know some of them in the Festival by ReRenaissance Forum in Basel about the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian and his Triumphzug, also later some more people in Ex Tempore Festival for Improvisation in Leipzig. Great video! Thanks for sharing with the world! :) And happy new year 2024 to everyone!!
Amazing!!!! I've never heard such a remarkable lute player!!!
Amazing and informative! Thank you for that enlightment of the medieval musical tradition!
Oh my! I wrote to soon! So much more! Instruments I've never seen!
Many thanks for the masterclass on early music.
Fabulous video! I've long been interested in medieval music and play the recorder. I wish I could afford good reproductions of plucked string instruments, but have to try and work with the modern ones I have at hand. The power of the music drives me to listen to it and play it with whatever I can
Fantastic overview! Can't think of a better place to study these instruments.
😊wonderful demonstration , thank you🎉
This is pure magic
Bravo 👏 Thanks for sharing!
great stuff, thanks!
You have earned a sub from me good sir for your efforts!
Very interesting history and beautiful music
Fascinating!!! That would be my dream. Would it be possible to know who your instrument makers are? Thank you for this wonderful presentation!
The 5course lute at the very beginning and very end is from the 1980's and was made by Richard Earle in Basel (who is still active here). The 5course that I'm holding up at min. 0:40 was made by Julian Behr in Grenzach-Wyhlen (we created that together as a prototype 15th-century, 5course plectrum lute). The gittern was made by Richard Earle, again. That one is our Schola instrument. My own gittern is a George Stevens instrument and he's currently making another one for our department at the SCB. The citole is a prototype that Martin Uhlig in Leipzig created (in cooperation with me): www.monoxyl.de. The cetra is a protoype, again made by Julian Behr (in cooperation), and the Carolingian cythara is another prototype that Martin Uhlig made for me. Most of these were developed specifically in the past 10 years.
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Absolutely fascinating how different they all sound. The Cetra was particularly surprising with the sound and that Gittern sounds absolutely delightful. Do you happen to know what wood is it made of? I'm thinking about getting one myself and would like to know where I should aim.
The main body wood is maple
@@EnsembleLeones thank you! Guess I will have to reconsider my stance on maple. I thought it's good bit brighter while i myself am all about them warm tones. Would asking how (roughly) deep is the bowl be too much?
@@basil_jackson I haven’t measured it and the depth differs from one end to the other, but it is not very deep
Cool stuff! The Citole looks and sounds amazing! Barely seen, such instrument. The Cythara also seems to be rare?
Both are absolutely rare (these were (re)constructed by Martin Uhlig: www.monoxyl.de). There are a few reconstruction attempts about for both instruments, but usually "modern" citoles have a very large "thumbhole" or even a "parallel" neck, while the surviving speciment and the depictions indicate a rather small hole, only for the thumb: this makes it an extremely ergonomic instrument to hold. As you might have noticed: none of the medieval lute instruments have straps. All were held freely before the chest and the citole facilitates that playing positions immensely by that thumbhole and the fleur de lis on the other end, which rests in the crook of your arm.
Please, what is the name of the piece at 2mi28 it is so beautiful...? I wish so much you continue to play it! Thank you for your dedication to the music of the past. I am very grateful.
The piece is a 3vv setting, surviving as an unicum in Oswald von Wolkenstein's B manuscript with the incipit "Ich klag, ich klag". We recorded it on the Ensemble Leones CD "The Cosmopolitan" with songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein. There is also another video with the complete piece, here: czcams.com/video/ttJQifx_IPg/video.htmlsi=FTyfW5g_AHzd1ZvE
@@EnsembleLeones Thank you so much for you answer! This is great!
So cool! I love the sound of all of the instruments. It seems like using a quill would make it difficult to play polyphonic music. Do you use your other right hand fingers at all?
It is actually possible to arrange late medieval polyphony so that it can be played only with the plectrum (an example is in the arrangements from the Wolfenbüttel Lute Tablature, one of which I present at the very beginning and end of this video), for other, more intricate settings we assume a "hybrid" technique, which makes the occasional use of an additional finger (and for which I then use fingernails in order to assimilate the sound quality to that of the plectrum).
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Brilliant! It reminds me of Peppe Frana's video of the same kind of music from 2019:
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