[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble
I think there should be enough R. lutenists at the SLEGS meetings in Edinburgh for one of Anton's quartets or at least to start things off with a duet. Everyone should have a lutenist meeting (many thanks to Rob MacKillop for starting up SLEGS). On 25/07/2012, Rockford Mjos rm...@comcast.net wrote: I am also very appreciative of Anton's efforts and generosity! (Thank you, Anton!) I like that Anton notifies this list of recent uploads and changes. It helps to keep me up-to-date with Anton's postings (no small task!). This list doesn't seem, to me, overburdened by this sort of notice. I am happy with his move to the IMSLP. Anton did mention the one day delay when he first started posting there and occasionally reminders us in his mailings to this group. In my experience a problem with the link most often has been because I have been too anxious (meaning too early)! But perhaps delaying the notice to this email list by one day might be considered. There are other possibilities for posting lute scores -- such as the Lute (or Early Guitar Vihuela!) Ning site, but I find it less than ideal for the type and quantity of offerings by Anton. Most lutenists may well be primarily solo players, but my life and music-making would be substantially poorer (literally and figuratively) without making music with other people--and that includes other lutenists. We do not have any great wealth of ensemble music, especially for 3 or 4 lutes. So I am happy about every new piece I find. Having a wider variety of lute ensemble music creates more options when trying to program to certain criteria, also. A group of us lutenists in Minnesota are planning on including some of Anton's arrangements in a program for the Minnesota Guitar Society in January 2013. We just have to figure out which! Thank you for your continued efforts, Anton! -- R To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble
Let me add my voice to the growing chorus of people saying Thank you, Anton. I am part of a small newbie Lute trio (known in my household as the Madison-Area Lute Support Group.) Anton's great arrangements have kept us playing together regularly, which in a town with an annual early music festival but no lute teachers means a lot. Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies And Faculty in Residence Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery University of Wisconsin-Madison Sent from my iPad On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Rockford Mjos rm...@comcast.net wrote: I am also very appreciative of Anton's efforts and generosity! (Thank you, Anton!) I like that Anton notifies this list of recent uploads and changes. It helps to keep me up-to-date with Anton's postings (no small task!). This list doesn't seem, to me, overburdened by this sort of notice. I am happy with his move to the IMSLP. Anton did mention the one day delay when he first started posting there and occasionally reminders us in his mailings to this group. In my experience a problem with the link most often has been because I have been too anxious (meaning too early)! But perhaps delaying the notice to this email list by one day might be considered. There are other possibilities for posting lute scores -- such as the Lute (or Early Guitar Vihuela!) Ning site, but I find it less than ideal for the type and quantity of offerings by Anton. Most lutenists may well be primarily solo players, but my life and music-making would be substantially poorer (literally and figuratively) without making music with other people--and that includes other lutenists. We do not have any great wealth of ensemble music, especially for 3 or 4 lutes. So I am happy about every new piece I find. Having a wider variety of lute ensemble music creates more options when trying to program to certain criteria, also. A group of us lutenists in Minnesota are planning on including some of Anton's arrangements in a program for the Minnesota Guitar Society in January 2013. We just have to figure out which! Thank you for your continued efforts, Anton! -- R To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Feeds and dumps
Alain I would be interested to read about dumps and tiompans! Do I need some sort of RSS reader to follow the link you give below? I just get unformatted lists when I click on the link. Stuart On 24 July 2012 15:53, Alain [1]al...@signtracks.com wrote: Hi Anton, Taco, and all, RSS feeds have been an elegant and non-intrusive way for consumers to keep abreast of newly published documents for some time now. Here is an example: [2]http://musickshandmade.com/lute/collections/feed.rss. If you follow that link you will see a link to a transcription of Arthurs dump from the Marsh LB. Following a recent discussion on dumps on this list, I decided to try to recap the current state of knowledge on the Dump as a type of music and collected various quotes and documents to that effect. Unfortunately, not only is the evidence fuzzy at best, but I was lead in the direction of an even more elusive Irish topic and instrument: the tiompan. Maybe some of you will find that information entertaining, and perhaps some of the documents useful. I also linked in the facsimile images of the piece from the Braye MS. Any feedback on the dump would be of considerable interest to me, gross as it may sound. I have not been able to check the latest Grove information for instance which is a real shame. Alain On 7/24/2012 7:23 AM, Taco Walstra wrote: On 07/23/2012 05:04 PM, Anton Hoeger wrote: Ok, I wrote that IMSLP always check the uploads and need at least one day. Because I often make a transcription for guitar too, it seems that IMSLP cannot handle with the same file name. But sorry if you feel that my more hundreds of Intavolations for 2-4 lutes in any tunings are to much, anton, I didn't write that I don't like your intavolations or guitar arrangements. Please don't be so quickly offended by what I wrote and please do continue your work. I only asked what the purpose is of sending emails for every addition or minor change to a piece, while there are so many better alternatives for getting the attention of your efforts like a webpage with a latest additions page, a rss xml feed, twitter or simply a separate mailing list. It's just an idea, not a critic on what you do. Taco I will not upload any more Intavolations. My work was thought for the luteplayers in any level. Not everybody can play the English Treble Ground duets or the very complicated Terzi duos or some else. If I look at mediafire, where I first uploaded my Intavolations, there are more than 15000 downloads! So I dont understand your opinion about solo lute players. May be,- but thats one of my reasons I do the Intavolations! I was 10 years teacher for classical guitar and later 15 years for the Renaissance lute. And my experience with all the hundreds of pupils was that they could benefit a lot of ensemble playing. Rhythme, Hearing, Playing prima vista, and a lot more. But a crucial effect is the sound effect of more lutes in an ensemble. Because of the less technical demand the lute players in an Ensemble has an overwelming soundeffect. But I dont want to defend my work. So if you feel so, I dont will upload any more Intavolations. I think my announcements are not too much, when I have a look at some gibberish you can find here. (More than one has complained this!) But ok, why should I make any uploads more? So all lute players who has downloaded my work, will give thanks to you! Anton To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:al...@signtracks.com 2. http://musickshandmade.com/lute/collections/feed.rss 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble
I greatly appreciate both the quality and the quantity of Anton's work. With exquisite taste he selects period pieces and creates beautiful lute arrangements of beautiful vocal and instrumental compositions, and his rapidly expanding output greatly increases the repertoire of our instrument. But the question is not about the value of Anton's work--how could anyone deny it?--but, rather, about the advisability of notifying the list of each new arrangement. I, for one, like to keep abreast of what Anton is doing and appreciate the notifications (though perhaps several e-mails could be consolidated into one). When a midi file accompanies the score, I always find great pleasure in listening to it immediately, and when he provides a guitar transcription as well, it facilitates the study of the counterpoint. Most of all, however, I am inspired by Anton's high standards of excellence, his unrelenting work ethic, and the great service he renders to the lute community worldwide by both. Every time I receive one of his notifications, it helps give me the strength to forge ahead myself. If I could be so impudent as to make a request, it would not be that he decrease the number of e-mails but that he increase the number of midi files and perhaps organize them into a continuous playlist. I would love to put on the headphones and listen to his arrangements one after the other while I am reading. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] A Gig gone bad
Thought the lute listers might enjoy this glimpse into the life of working musicians in 1790's Virginia. No Lutes involved, just some unpaid loot. C.Etter http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/07/25/the-people-her e-seem-very-fond-of-musick/ A chair maker, musician, and dancing master make a very strange trio, but 1790 judgment papers found in the Richmond (City) court records show how a concert brought the three together and eventually brought two of them to blows. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
