Danza Polacca from "Codice Lauten-Buch" - Lute Guitar

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Comment by Andrei Blinov on April 30, 2013 at 17:02

I can only add that "Kolomeyka" is still a very popular Carpathian (West-Ukrainian) folk dance and the word TANNTZ means in Hungarian ”Dance” too.

Comment by Arthur J. Ness on April 30, 2013 at 13:45

The same Hungarian tune appears in other lute settings, as I recall in a collection of Hungarian dances compiled by Daniel Benko (unpublished).  And the original title is as I spelled it in all caps, "Tanntz" simply an antiquated spelling for "Tanz."

Comment by Andrei Blinov on April 29, 2013 at 19:02

I use a special set of nylon guitar strings  "Magma Transpositor" (Argentina) to tune my lute-guitar with the first string in G. The strings are thinner that the ones from a usual classical guitar light tension set.

Comment by Juan Pablo Pira on April 29, 2013 at 18:29

I have access to a lute-guitar... however, it looks far more like a lute than the one you have. The fretboard is not raised and the bowl seems larger. Does you have any idea about appropriate string tension?  String length is close to the standard 65 cm. Should I use normal, low tension strings or even thinner ones (requinto strings might be an option)? is nylon out of the question?

Comment by Andrei Blinov on April 17, 2013 at 11:04

Dear Arthur! I am really impressed by your very important 'historical' comment. The word "Tannz" means "Dance" in Russian, for example. That's why Chilesotti titles this peace as "Polacca" - "Slavic dance", I think so. Swineherd's dance? Maybe! It is folk cheerful dance...

Comment by Arthur J. Ness on April 17, 2013 at 8:47

That's a nice performance.  One needs to be careful with Chilesotti's titles.  All of the pieces he calls "danza" in the Codice Lauten-Buch are titled "Tannz" in the original manuscript.   In 1880 Wilhelm Tappert, the Wagnerian, listed all of titles and his notes survive in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. It was a lute book compiled by a Nuremberg merchant.  No. 41 was titled (in all caps) "HUNGARISCHER TANNTZ." (!)  It is a swineherd's dance, "Kolomeyka."