I will shortly be offering lessons here for beginners as well as advanced lirone players. Some will be pieces that are known to have specified the lirone while others are those that are especially appropriate for the lirone. In most cases the lirone is not expected to play through an entire piece, especially in a lament where the character’s emotional state changes frequently during the narrative. We will discover what pieces and passages are appropriate according to the text and harmonic construction and we’ll find out how to present the music according to the conventions of Italian poetry. One advantage we have is that for narratives and recitatives there are almost always only two line lengths: 11 and 7, a practice going back to Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio. It’s fortunate for us that all music for the lirone is based on this basic blueprint. The operas below have become standard repertoire for the professional lirone player: Claudio Monteverdi: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (the laments of Ottavia, and other scenes) L’Orfeo (Prologo, Messagiera sequence, Orfeo laments, Proserpina) L’Ulisse (Laments of Ulisse, Penelope, and other scenes) Luigi Rossi: Orfeo (Laments of Orfeo, Euridice, and numerous other scenes) And some beginners’ pieces: c. 1500, Diomedes - Dolores mortis c. 1500, Bartolomeo Tromboncino - Ave Maria gratia plena c.1580, Giulio Caccini - Angel divin’ c. 1565, Alessandro Striggio - Fuggi, speme mia, fuggi, Psyche’s lament, from the 1565 Florentine intermedii In addition we will look at some of the works offered on video in ROME portion of the website.