Arto wrote: > > yesterday I got my copy of the LSA Quarterly XXXIX, No. 4. It was a very > nice surprise: about 70 lute arrangemants of Christmas and "winter > holiday" pieces! It will be very useful!
Indeed, I'd like to echo that sentiment. what a nice surprise. I sat down immediately and started paging through and plucking here and there. Especially nice were some of the duplicates. It's always interesting to me to see how others arrange a piece of music and to be able to compare them. There are some lovely arrangements there, though I admit to having had a bit of a rough time with that one stretch that Ronn McFarlane put into "Lullee, Lullay". It's a lovely chord, but made for someone whose hands stretch the length his do, not someone with stubby hands like mine. <G> Still it's a beautiful arrangement Ronn, and one of my favourite pieces of Christmas music. I'll work on that stretch and maybe have it down by the time Betsy's next Lute Weekend comes around. Thank you all who contributed to this issue. It is greatly appreciated. I may have to bring it and my lute to the office to provide some background music during the holidays. Best wishes for the holidays, Craig To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
