Stewart,
You seem to be a true coward, when the shootin starts you head for
cover, when it's all over you come out and proclaim victory. You also
have a real insicurity about your achivements, posting some riduculous
paper on something that supposedidly has something to do with me? I
suggest in future writtings you limit the amount of content, or at
least lure your readers in more. I usually like to read slanderous
material conserning myself but really couldn't get past the first
sentance. MT
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:50:50 -0500
Subject: cautionary tale (was RE: Byrd)
A wino gets kicked out of a bar because he did not behave properly. He
hangs
around the bar for months and months, hoping that someday, someone will
apologize to him and invite him to patronize the bar again. He admits
that he
failed to behave properly, even after he had been warned, but he thinks
he
should be readmitted because of his feeling that those who kicked him
out were
not very courteous. However, he tells everybody who will listen that the
employees and management and the general atmosphere of the bar are
terrible and
that smart customers should go to a nearby bar that is smaller and much
more
relaxed and friendly. He also tells everybody who will listen that he
is still
hanging around the terrible bar because he wants to help improve the
policies
and management of the bar and he wants to warn and help protect new
patrons who
may not realize what a terrible bar it really is.
The poor wino correctly realizes that if he is regarded as just another
noisy
human derelict, few will listen to him and even fewer will be willing
to support
his sad crusade. So, he spends much of his time trying to convince
others that
he is very reasonable, very talented, very well educated and very
respectable.
But nevertheless, many of those who had briefly listened to him soon
become
annoyed and bored by his twisted logic and his endless, whining
complaints. He
easily gets into numerous arguments and fights with some of the
employees and
patrons of the bar. Of course, he always blames the others for starting
the
arguments and fights.
After several months, the wino announces that he will not ever go back
into the
terrible bar again, even if the bar management announces a very
generous general
amnesty and promises him free drinks and free snacks for life. Then,
when he is
questioned about why he still hangs around the bar after making this
announcement, he becomes frantic as he searches for some kind of
plausible
answer. He kicks himself for making it so easy for his critics to
attack the
fragile logic that forms the very foundation of his sad crusade. After
many
hours of frustration, he finally decides that publicly attacking one of
his
critics with very vulgar language is the only way he can respond.
But, after doing so, he sobers up a little and sadly realizes that his
vulgar
language will probably cause more and more observers to begin regarding
him as
just another noisy human derelict.
After several more months, the poor wino grows tired of all of the
stupid people
who will not listen to his arguments or support his crusade and all of
his
ignorant critics who always seem to push the appropriate buttons. He
thinks more
and more about a grand slam triple whammy that he could easily
accomplish
without any assistance from anyone. With just one bold, but simple
stroke, he
could punish all of them by moving to a far away city and not ever
communicating
with any of them again. Then, the stupid fools would no longer have the
benefit
of his wisdom, his ignorant critics would not have him to kick around
any more
and he would have an opportunity to get a new life and live happily
ever after.
He would also have time to start playing lute again, because he would
no longer
need to use all of his spare time to write articles for lutenet. HAPPY
DAYS
would be back again ! He shakes his head and wonders why he did not
think of
this simple solution much sooner. But typically, like many poor winos
before
him, he can not decide about which city he should move to or the best
time for
him to move...
(adapted from http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/essay/whino.html)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: Byrd
Well, two weeks of hell are over. It takes a broad mind, and humble
person to admit they made a mistake. I truely wish Auther Ness would
have risin to the occasion. but he didn't..... Putting us all through
this.... I would have met him half way.
On the other hand to all who wrote to me privately, I'm, glad I could
intertain you for the past week or so.
I hope this incourages people to think for themselves on this
list. I'm told by my other lute friends that the pompousness, and
pettiness, doesn't exist in the world of lute, off this lutenet. Most
of my lute freinds don't subscribe to this list and are constanly
advising me to get off of it.
I have not gone to the LSA for the past 3 years in fear of
actually running in to anyone on this list. Although I'm sure I'll run
into MO this fall when Barto plays at the GFA, in Cleveland.
Fun,fun,fun.... In the mean time, Wayne has given me the choice of not
insulting Auther Ness, or being kicked off the lutenet. Being someone
who can't keep a promise like this I've choosen the later.
I will not let the few pompous thugs, on this list, ruin my love,
of all things lute. This has really been a soap opera. I'm sure my
giutar freinds have had simalir experiances but I reallty think this
takes the cake.
Stewart, I know you may not have fond feelings for me, but to finally
clear this up means allot, at least to me. Thanks.....
Everyone, including you thugs, stay safe, and keep on plucking.
John Haskins/ Michael thames
-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lute Net <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:37:06 +0100
Subject: Byrd
Dear Lutesn2,
As far as I know, William Byrd did not compose any music
specifically for the lute. He wrote lots of church music and secular
music for voices, lots of keyboard music, and songs and instrumental
pieces for viols.
Some of Byrd's music was intabulated for the lute, notably in solo
lute arrangements by Francis Cutting. There is a large number of
rather literal intabulations without the cantus part, which survive
in the lute books of Edward Paston. One of those lute books is the
largest single source of music by Byrd, and contains many
intabulations of consort songs, some of which survive only in
tablature, frustratingly lacking the cantus.
It has been shown that Paston also had some complete intabulations
(cantus not omitted) in his library, but this music is now lost.
These ghosts are mainly intabulations of 3-part pieces, many of them
by Byrd, including Byrd's three-part fantasies. It is easy enough to
recreate these lost intabulations, as long as the music survives
complete elsewhere (i.e. in a staff notation source).
Over the years I have occasionally heard people say, "If only Byrd
had written for the lute." He didn't, but there is nothing to stop
us following in the footsteps of Cutting and Paston, and making our
own intabulations of Byrd's music.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:57 AM
Subject: Byrd
> Dear Mr. McCoy,
> If MT is incorrect in saying Byrd wrote no lute music. Is
Doug
> Smith incorrect as well?
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