Robert de Visée: Prelude in 4 versions

00:09 Theorbo version 02:24 Baroque Lute version 04:09 Baroque Guitar version 06:16 Harpsichord version This video completes my article “Robert de Visée’s corpus: a stylistic tutor“, issued in Quarterly, journal of the Lute Society of America, fall 2012. Based on the five existing manuscripts, these four versions display some aspects of the musical and instrumental flexibility offered by this music - the most obvious example being the absence of the last part in Claire Antonini’s setting, an absolutely legitimous choice, as two manuscripts excluded it, while another offered a shortened variant of it. Here in Dm key, the guitar setting could also be in Em. This prelude bears the code in my “Table of Concordance“. The LSA article, the tablatures and the music in F clef are available at the Articles page of my website . (article n°24) Cette video complète mon article “Robert de Visée’s corpus: a stylist