[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Gehema lute book

2009-12-01 Thread Rob MacKillop
   Very nice playing, Mathias.



   Rob

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[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Gehema lute book

2009-12-01 Thread Mathias Rösel
Sorry, was wrong list.

"Arto Wikla"  schrieb:
> Beautiful, Mathias!

Thank you!

> You play by your new 12 course lute?

Yes. I have it in Mace's tuning / pitch: g' - e' - c' - a - e - B -
AGFEDC

> Also I happened to play to the "tube" those first 3 pieces by my old 
> 10-courser just a month ago:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDnThfm-uCQ

Nice! Hadn't seen it, now you're on my abonnement list. I like your
relaxed tempi.

Best wishes,

Mathias

> Mathias Rösel wrote:
> > "Stuart Walsh"  schrieb:
> >> Mathias Rösel wrote:
> >>> Dear everybody,
> >>>
> >>> playing through the Gehema lute book, I've found what surprisingly
> >>> beautiful music it contains. I've made some recordings (way not as
> >>> impeccable as the music itself), available here:
> >>> https://download.yousendit.com/ZW9DWUhxV3IzeUtGa1E9PQ 
> > 
> >> Very nice playing, Mathias. I just listened to them all. I used to have 
> >> a Baroque lute but I've never heard of the Gehema lute book.
> > 
> > Berlin 40264. There used to be a facsimile edition by the
> > Zentralantiquariat der DDR.
> > 
> >> Mid 17th century?
> > 
> > 1650-60, IOW some 15 years after the music was composed, according to
> > François-Pierre Goy's thesis. According to the editor of the facsimile,
> > Otremba, Virginia Gehema with her husband, Abraham, lived on their manor
> > near Lesniów Maly and Lesniów Wielki, Poland (then West Prussia). Her
> > father-in-law was a friend of the German poet Martin Opitz who lived in
> > Danzig (Gdansk) and later moved to Thorn (Torun).
> > 
> >> Lots of French twiddly things
> > 
> > The courante on fol. 2v is by Merville, the sarabande on fol. 5 is by
> > Mesangeau.
> > 
> >> but some German titles - bit like Reussner?
> > 
> > That is my impression as well. Silesia is not too far away, and
> > obviously people would whistle similar tunes.



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