Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Am 2 Sep 2003 um 21:39 hat Rainer aus dem Spring geschrieben: > Anybody will acccept donations. > > Unforunatly they do NOT always accept orders. > Some time ago I tried to order several microfilms form the > Staatsbiliothek. > > They simply told me I can't buy them all. > > Who do these peop

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Thomas Schall
Seems to be a matter of taste and anyway: Who are you to say what's worth surviving and what not?! Thomas Rainer aus dem Spring schrieb am 02.09.2003: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I find Stewart McCoy's discussion fascinating. His distinction >between >> primary sources and the sometimes cruc

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Rainer aus dem Spring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > while we're at it, I would like to once again point out that > the Bavarian State Library in Munich will gratefully take > donations that aim at certain lute manuscripts and books. See > http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/bedroht.html for further > expla

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Rainer aus dem Spring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I find Stewart McCoy's discussion fascinating. His distinction between > primary sources and the sometimes crucial value of secondary sources when they > preserve evidence of notations recently lost is important. As an art conservator > specializing paintings in the

Re: Archiving (olim Welde Lute Book)

2003-09-02 Thread Howard Posner
Dan Heiman wrote: > I have recently encountered a distressing problem with a recording -- > although it is only about 15 years old, it will no longer play in any of > the players in my possession. The CD, disk 1 of Monteverdi's Second > Vespers for Santa Barbara done by the Sixteen (with Nigel No

Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Stewart McCoy
the local authority, who neglected the building as it fell into disrepair. Eventually they pulled the building down (in the 1950's), and built a school on the site. Goodness knows what happened to the contents of the house, including the lute book. As with the Welde Lute Book, we have a tantalising r

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread KennethBeLute
I find Stewart McCoy's discussion fascinating. His distinction between primary sources and the sometimes crucial value of secondary sources when they preserve evidence of notations recently lost is important. As an art conservator specializing paintings in the museum field I deal with these ma

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-09-02 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
rt McCoy geschrieben: > Dear All, > > My point about the Welde Lute Book is that some pages of the > original manuscript have been repaired with the old-fashioned method > of gauzing, that is covering flimsy paper with a thin sort of material > (gauze) to strengthen and protect it.

Welde Lute Book

2003-09-01 Thread Stewart McCoy
tings. There is some confusion in what people have in mind with the words "primary source". A primary source for me is the one-and-only original manuscript, e.g. the Welde Lute Book owned by Lord Forester at Willey Park, Shropshire, which I looked at last Friday. A secondary source mi

Welde Lute Book

2003-09-01 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear All, My point about the Welde Lute Book is that some pages of the original manuscript have been repaired with the old-fashioned method of gauzing, that is covering flimsy paper with a thin sort of material (gauze) to strengthen and protect it. The trouble is that reading anything on a gauzed

RE: Archiving (olim Welde Lute Book)

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Fletcher
Hi Daniel, et al Point taken regarding digital media going out of date. I was not suggesting relying on lute-tablature saved this way. Merely to print ones own legible paper copy to perform from, with as much of the ornamentation as can be gleaned from the original, even if it happens to be o

Re: Archiving (olim Welde Lute Book)

2003-09-01 Thread David Rastall
ly seems good reason to make yourself some >> new >> performing copies of 'original' sources, in Fronimo, Django, >> Stringwalker, >> or whatever tab-setting program you prefer, before they become too >> illegible with use, fade, or discolour. >> >&

Archiving (olim Welde Lute Book)

2003-09-01 Thread Daniel F Heiman
gram you prefer, before they become too > illegible with use, fade, or discolour. > > Save and protect your primary sources. > > Best Wishes > > Ron (UK) > > Stewart McCoy wrote > > I had fun yesterday playing music from the Welde Lute Book. The > stave lin

Re: Welde Lute Book

2003-08-31 Thread Rainer aus dem Spring
Stewart McCoy wrote: > Dear All, > > I had fun yesterday playing music from the Welde Lute Book. The > stave lines are so faint you can hardly see them. There are lots of > solos at the start of the book, but no-one ever got round to > copying out any songs. Pity really.

FW: Welde Lute Book

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Fletcher
ct your primary sources. Best Wishes Ron (UK) Stewart McCoy wrote I had fun yesterday playing music from the Welde Lute Book. The stave lines are so faint you can hardly see them. There are lots of solos at the start of the book, but no-one ever got round to copying out any songs. Pity really. If

Welde Lute Book

2003-08-31 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear All, I had fun yesterday playing music from the Welde Lute Book. The stave lines are so faint you can hardly see them. There are lots of solos at the start of the book, but no-one ever got round to copying out any songs. Pity really. If you have an old photocopy or microfilm, hang on to it