Melancholy Galliard – Renaissance Lute

25 Comments

• salixarbour says:

  December 13, 2007 at 10:15 pm

  Hi, welltuned. Haha, that’s realy very funny. I couldn’t believe my bad luck when recording this piece; the fire started crackling at such an inopportune moment. That’s burning willow for you. You have some excellent videos by the way: Edith Piaf, Paul Odette, French Baroque Trio, Ipernot etc.
  Kind regards.
  Alan.
• thepiper84 says:

  December 14, 2007 at 10:49 am

  The lute is not the easiest of stringed instruments I took lesson with Rob Mckillop of edinburgh uni (Renaissance lute 6course) and it took a while to get over the basics I was a guitar player beforehand and it’s about readapting the brain to know which is which on the fingerboard. But a very challanging and fun instrument
• welltuned24 says:

  December 14, 2007 at 5:00 pm

  I’ve been at the Baroque repertoire for a while now and your video inspired me to pull out the Renaissance lute and play. How cool is that?

  There are some very cool videos on YouTube (including yours), that’s for sure.
• Pudlis16 says:

  December 20, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  Some day, I’m gonna learn how to play the lute, get an electric lute, and tour the world With the name Lute Skywalker!
• BillFlann9 says:

  December 21, 2007 at 3:03 am

  Great! Let’s us all know how that works out
• vrwxtc says:

  December 27, 2007 at 6:33 am

  very nice
• LuvMusicLuvPoetry says:

  December 29, 2007 at 2:56 am

  awesomeness good luck
• Songsmirth says:

  January 1, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  Lovely.
• Johal523 says:

  January 3, 2008 at 3:10 am

  Not a bad idea..electric lute.You all think that studying and learning some of this renaissance lute music could help me with metal(probobly or at least partly neo-classical)electric guitar?
• TomBandfield says:

  January 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  Great playing, I love this kind of music. Thank you.
• stripedchair says:

  January 6, 2008 at 9:40 am

  kind of looks like a derivative of the middle eastern oud
• 0pteryx says:

  January 10, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  The European Lute is a modified version of the Oud brought to Europe by the Arabs during the middle ages.
• danieldraco2000 says:

  January 12, 2008 at 2:31 am

  I live in Ontario Canada would you please tell me where I can get more of this music?
• jorgeaa92 says:

  January 13, 2008 at 11:37 pm

  u can buy david russell’s cd renaissance favorites for guitar…its not lute but it sounds similar and contains this as well as other dowland compositions
• 4Peterr20 says:

  January 16, 2008 at 11:44 am

  Hey man you fucking rock
  Keep up the good work, Keep it BROOTAL!!
  \m/
• salixarbour says:

  January 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  Hi, daniedraco…all I can suggest really is just search the web! I believe there is a Lute Society in the USA nowadays, maybe even Canada?
  Best of luck.
  Alan.
• Billabyte says:

  January 18, 2008 at 4:11 am

  how can such a beautiful sound emanate from such an ugly boat paddle of an instrument

  it sounds like a really nice classical guitar
• o2gee says:

  January 20, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  A marvelous piece and wonderful played! Thank you for posting. I wish a could play this way.
• danieldraco2000 says:

  January 20, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  thank you so much for helping me
• winghun says:

  January 29, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  lol

  anyway its really moody. lute was a quite popular instrument in my country, hungary too in the 16-17th century and played important role in hungarian folk music, so it sounds really familiar to me. great job!
• teresalopezm says:

  January 30, 2008 at 1:42 pm

  ahhh but it does and just imagine what a masterfully crafted lute in its time and prime woulda sounded like!!!
• kreepykrawlie says:

  January 31, 2008 at 2:59 am

  Sounds wonderful! However, you look like you’d be more at home playing on a rock in the middle of a calm lake on a misty morning! At least that what the music makes me think of.
• kreepykrawlie says:

  January 31, 2008 at 3:02 am

  Try looking for the artist Paul O’Dette. He has some pretty amazing lute recordings!
• salixarbour says:

  January 31, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  Hi, KreepyKrawlie.
  You’re right, Paul O’Dette is a wonderful, proper, lute player. Quite unlike myself; I’m just some bod having a play!
  Best wishes.
  Alan.
• salixarbour says:

  February 7, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  Sorry, but I have temporarily removed the ‘comments’ feature after repeated advertising on this video page.
  However, I can still be contacted via email.
  Alan Lowe-Jones.