Ok Valéry, get your Lagavulin ready then !!! ;-) Jean-Marie
======= 03-04-2008 14:02:30 ======= >Should we make a "Club of the 8 course proud users" ? >Val (is it an half penny idea ?) >;-))) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jean-Marie Poirier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute" ><lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:38 PM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: 7c at 64cms > > >> Jean-Marie, >> >> I am glad somebody agrees with me on this issue. Theis topic, 8 course >> lutes, was discussed some tome ago on this list. I also have an 8 course >> lute., and I like it ever so much more than a 7 course lute I once had. >> >> ed >> >> >> At 01:02 PM 4/3/2008 +0200, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote: >>> Martin, >>> >>>I totally agree with all of that, including your non-ostracizing the poor >>>8c ;-) ! >>>So much music, Elizabethan and continental as well, is designed for 8c >>>that it seems more than strange to reject this type of lute. If it's only >>>a matter of personnal taste, then I can understand and accept it, but I >>>can think of no music-ologic-al reasons to do so. >>>Obviously, the 9c lived a very short life, a quarter of a century at >>>best, but 7c and 8c lasted much longer, if the repertoire can be an >>>indication af anything regarding instruments in use at the time... >>>Another obvious thing is that lute players used several instruments simply >>>because it was easier, and sort of cheaper, to get them then than now. >>> >>>Just my tupence (let's make it three pence ;-)) thought on that matter, >>> >>>Jean-Marie >>> >>>======= 03-04-2008 12:29:04 ======= >>> >>> >Dear Anthony and All, >>> > >>> >I assume the "Martin" you refer to is me. I don't remember ever saying >>> >that I thought Dowland changed from 7c to 9c without ever using an 8c, >>> >or that any of these changes coincided with his change from TI to TO. >>> >We simply don't know the answer to any of these questions. >>> > >>> >I do think it likely that the change from TI to TO is related to the >>> >increase in number of courses, and also to the change in musical style >>> >from equal-voiced polyphony to a more treble-and-bass style. >>> > >>> >Best wishes, >>> > >>> >Martin >>> > >>> >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>http://poirierjm.free.fr >>>03-04-2008 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> >>>-- >>>No virus found in this incoming message. >>>Checked by AVG. >>>Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1356 - Release Date: 4/2/2008 >>>4:14 PM >> >> >> >> Edward Martin >> 2817 East 2nd Street >> Duluth, Minnesota 55812 >> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> voice: (218) 728-1202 >> >> >> >> > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://poirierjm.free.fr 03-04-2008
