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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