Cuthbert Hely

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Cuthbert Hely was an English lutenist who worked in the first half of the 17th century.

Life

Nothing more is known about his life. However, if Hely had learned his art first hand, from musicians like John Dowland , then he could have been born around 1570 and then have been an elderly man around 1640.

An earlier view that Hely compiled the Cherbury lute book and that Lord Herbert's teacher was Lord Herbert's statement is contradicted by the fact that Lord Herbert, according to his own statements, learned to play the lute largely by himself around 1603 and that Hely's compositions were only entered into the lute book by the third and final hand were.

Whether the composer is identical to a Cuthbert Hely who is recorded in Ludlow, England during the period in question remains to be seen.

plant

Eight pieces of music for lute by Cuthbert Hely are in the lute book of Edward, Lord Herbert von Cherbury (four fantasies, three preludes and a sarabande). The entries are dated to around 1640. Only one other piece of music by Hely is still known, a four-part Air in the handwriting GB-Lbl Add. 18940, which is dated to around 1650.

Although only a few pieces by Hely have survived, his music, which continues the musical art of John Dowland into the early Baroque era, represents a peak of lute art on the threshold of the Baroque.

output

  • Cuthbert Hely: Eight Pieces by Cuthbert Hely for Ten-Course Lute. transmitted and edited by Matthew Spring. The Lute Society Music Editions, Oldham 1993, ISBN 0-905655-04-4 . (French tablature and notes)

literature

  • RT Dart: Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book. ML, xxxviii (1957), pp. 136-148.
  • CA Price: An Organizational Peculiarity of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lutebook. LSJ, xi (1969), pp. 5-27.
  • J. Craig-McFeely: A Can of Worms: Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book. Inventory of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book. LSJ, xxxi (1991), pp. 20-35, 36-48.
  • MG Spring: Solo Music for Tablature Instruments. The Blackwell History of Music in Britain. iii: The Seventeenth Century. ed. I. Spink, Oxford 1992, pp. 381-384.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew Spring: The Lute in Britain. Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-816620-6 , pp. 335-338, here p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Hely, Cuthbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century