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Donald Bousted & Celia Ireland - La Bataille de lanequinn

from Barry Tone​’​s Fantastic Adventure by Donald Bousted

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The last piece in the third book of tablature for Renaissance guitar, which comprises mostly arrangements of songs by Simon Gorlier, is a duet for two guitars called La Battaille de laneqinn. Such battle-inspired pieces were common at the time and appear in vocal forms too - in fact Grégoire Brayssing's solo piece ‘La Guerre’ has quite similar repeating motives. As a long-time lover of ensemble music, I was excited to find this piece and started learning both parts (which are presented as one part following the other, rather than in score form). However, I soon realised that the parts didn’t fit together. The first part, for example, started with 70 bars of 2 time followed by 27 bars of 3 time and yet the second part began with 59 bars of 2 time followed by 7 bars of 3 time. I experimented with adding repeats and experimented with various other theories about what could have gone wrong - but no end of crossword puzzle-type analysis seemed to indicate a solution. In the meantime, the opportunity arose to write a piece for recorder and baritone, so I decided to use the duet as a basis but introduce a little more ‘battle angst’ in a more modern, but hopefully sympathetic way. I have essentially used the majority of the second part for this piece with some ideas from the first part to start the recorder line. As the piece progresses the recorder often simply duplicates the beautiful melodic lines within the second part. The piece culminates with a dance-like, three-time battle sequence before finding a little resolution as it moves towards the end.

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from Barry Tone​’​s Fantastic Adventure, released October 24, 2021
Donal Bousted, baritone ukulele; Celia Ireland, soprano recorder
Adapted and re-written by Donald Bousted from the 3rd book of tablature for the Renaissance Guitar. Simon Gorlier

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Donald Bousted benefitted from some excellent teaching, studying the guitar with Thomas Hartmann, the lute with Christopher Wilson and early music with Peter Holman and Ian Gammie. Later, he took further guitar lessons with Antonio Albanes and Oliver Hunt privately. In 2017, he discovered the classical ukulele and it seemed to bring many of his interests together. Sadly Donald passed in 2021. ... more

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