Hi Stephan,
thanks for your compliments. You are speaking german very well!
I think Stewart (McCoy by the way) and I would agree. I guess he was
thinking in terms of continuo where the important note would always be
the bass. There is no problem with rolling a chord for instance to
spread the
there's a recent article by joseph baldassarre somewhere in
cyber-space... on the various methods used to play with plectrum. i
haven't read it yet but visual evidence would seem to suggest (through
the various ways in which small, lute-like instruments and plectrum
were held) that arpeggios
With the imminent convergence of lutes on Cleveland, I was wondering
what the current practices were for flying with lutes--especially if
anyone has been on Continental Airlines. Domestic air travel in the US
changes every few months now--new screening procedures, new
restictions, longer
Dear Derek,
1) Find a good teacher - a lutenist, not a guitarist.
2) Make friends with other players, and play duets, trios, etc.
3) Find a singer who is genuinely interested in early music, and
accompany him/her.
4) Go to a meeting or summer school where you can meet other
players.
5) Join the
Am 26 May 2004 um 21:19 hat Stewart McCoy geschrieben:
I don't know what evidence there is for this sort of thing, but many
modern players roll chords like that.
Dear Stewart and all,
concerning rolled chords Hans Michael Koch told me once that
the earliest evidence he knows of is to be
Basically I am NOT writing here for a while, but in the British/English
Lute Society Journal (Vol. XLII) that came yesterday, there is a higlhy
interesting article by Theodoros Kitsos: Arpeggiated Chords in Early
17'th Century Italy. A very interesting article, indeed! (In this
special case I
Edward, thank you very much for your thoughtful response. Among other =
things, you wrote: I prepared for this recording by finding the beauty =
'soul' of this music. I cannot judge whether Phalese himself, for =
example, would have rolled the chords as you do on this recording, but I =
fully
