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The art of playing the lute formed a major part of instrumental music-making in the Renaissance before keyboard instruments assumed central significance. It was a refined, soft and at the same time colorful art, in sharp contrast to the agitated times in which it was practiced. —Karl Schumann This style knows nothing of the otherwise usual requirements and prohibitions of voice-leading; it can only be understood in relation to the fingering technique; it frequently applies the sound of open strings and in no way avoids the otherwise so despised parallel 5ths and octaves or unisons. The dissonances and other conflicting sounds which appear so often ... strike me as exciting and revealing. —Carl Orff

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