Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread Ed Durbrow
New to the list here... I'm a classical guitarist in love with lute music, and am transcribing a song by MacFarlane. I recorded it, raised it an octave, and then am playing it back at 50% speed to help in getting an accurate transcription My question is this: Do all lutes have two-string

Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread Nancy Carlin
There's 15 seconds of the video of Ronn playing the Lute Society of America's web site. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/download/index.html It's in the Download section. John Come Kiss me Now is a ballad tune that probably exists in several manuscripts. I'll bet someone on this list can not

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread David Cameron
from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would be cool. Like i was thinking recently, what if America was not conquered and developed under the sign of stiff puritans but by the Italians (without the Savanarola part though-hehe)just when there was the Renaissance and everything went renaissancewise...Thiw part of

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Certainly some friend in Italy Paolo Declich from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would be cool. Like i was thinking recently, what if America was not conquered and developed under the sign of stiff puritans but by the Italians (without the Savanarola part though-hehe)just when there was the

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Do you have many friends in America, Rosi? David Cameron Yes - Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! – Try it today! -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Joe Mayes
That's right, RT, just think of the enormous contributions made by Mother Russia in the Pacific. From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:01:48 -0500 To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED], lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Renaissance america

OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
I'm no military historian Obviously not. but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault (astounding as that may be)? A minor thing indeed, at the cost 20,000,000.00 lives on the Russian side alone. More than 20 times the US

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
That's right, RT, just think of the enormous contributions made by Mother Russia in the Pacific. In fact, no Russian Club Med resorts at all (only liberating Korea and Manchuria) RT -- http://polyhymnion.org/torban From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:01:48

International Brotherhood week - again?

2004-12-09 Thread Garry Bryan
Judging from the recent threads regarding the renaissance in America, I'd say the milk of human kindness is once again turning to yogurt. Before assuming that America would have been better if it had been colonized by Italians/Germans/Martians, please keep in mind that many of my ancestors were

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would be cool. Like i was thinking recently, what if America was not conquered and developed under the sign of stiff puritans but by the Italians (without the Savanarola part though-hehe)just when there was the Renaissance and everything went renaissancewise...Thiw

Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread Jose Luis
Joe Helmick wrote: New to the list here... I'm a classical guitarist in love with lute music, and am transcribing a song by MacFarlane. I recorded it, raised it an octave, and then am playing it back at 50% speed to help in getting an accurate transcription My question is this: Do all

Re: OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread corun
Roman wrote: Stewart wrote: I'm no military historian Obviously not. There's a lot of that going around it seems. but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault (astounding as that may be)? A minor thing indeed, at the

Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 03:24 AM 12/9/2004, Ed Durbrow wrote: New to the list here... I'm a classical guitarist in love with lute music, and am transcribing a song by MacFarlane. I recorded it, raised it an octave, and then am playing it back at 50% speed to help in getting an accurate transcription My

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Vance Wood
As it stands today you are correct, however if America was not involved in WWII Hitler would not have been forced to fight a two front war at either end of the Continent, Russia would not have had American assistance financially and technically and the entire outcome of the war would have been

Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread Vance Wood
Hi Ed: Most Renaissance Lutes have doubled strings on all but the first course and some even have those (mine does). This is a common problem in playing the Lute, many players only hit one of the two strings, or their technique is so accurate that it sounds like they are only hitting one string,

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Vance Wood
The Russian causalities were as high as they were because Stalin just kept throwing soldiers at the Germans, the body count meant nothing to him. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stuart LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: International Brotherhood week - again?

2004-12-09 Thread Vance Wood
Hi Garry: I too have a bit of the Native American flowing through my veins. However you are correct this is about Lutes. If you are referring to a general concordance like you find with Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven, the answered is no. There are some attempts with particular composers such as

Re: Renaissance America

2004-12-09 Thread Blockflute1
Italy was out of the picture during the time America was being colonized but to see what effect a similar culture (Spain) would have, you need only look south of the US at Mexico. While puritans colonized Massachusets, most of the rest of the Atlantic colonies were settled by more rational

Re: lute tablatures online

2004-12-09 Thread Donatella Galletti
Dear All, I updated my links page ( tab to download ) on my site. Some urls are probably missing (list of missing persons on the site and others, I suppose), so just mail me if you would like to be added or if you notice any mistakes. Donatella http://web.tiscali.it/awebd To get on or off

Re: Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-09 Thread Carl Donsbach
Thoughts, random and disjointed... Early colonial life was hard! The early English and Spanish colonies in North America were not characterized by much musical cultural growth, and there is little evidence of lute playing or making in those times. Musical instruments (lutes included) tended

Re: question about lute courses/strings

2004-12-09 Thread adS
Jose Luis wrote: Joe Helmick wrote: New to the list here... I'm a classical guitarist in love with lute music, and am transcribing a song by MacFarlane. I recorded it, raised it an octave, and then am playing it back at 50% speed to help in getting an accurate transcription My question

Re: Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-09 Thread James A Stimson
Dear Carl and All: Carl's comments may hold true for what we now know as the United States, but probably not for Mexico and Central America. Recent research has suggested a fairly high level of musical activity, including instrument making by immigrants and natives, and choral music in the

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
As it stands today you are correct, however if America was not involved in WWII Hitler would not have been forced to fight a two front war at either end of the Continent, Russia would not have had American assistance financially and technically and the entire outcome of the war would have

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
But my original question still remains unanswered: Why this Jab at America? I thought this was a forum to discuss the Lute and things related. No jabs. It was just a bit difficult to leave LeBlanc's uneducated insult uncommented. RT -- http://polyhymnion.org/torban To get on or off this

Re: Italian Christmas Songs

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
here is what I found. The first three songs are commonly sung at Christmas, I don't know about the last one. If you digit canti di Natale. testi- musica on Google, I think you'll find more. Any willing Sautscheck to put them for the lute? No. The S's were sniffy about Christmas, although they

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
Likewise in the east, the Japanese had secured most of the strategic points in the Pacific Rim and China, and were well on their way to take down Australia. But between the Chinese insurgency and the massive American campaign, their resources became stretched too thin. Again, please

Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
Likewise in the east, the Japanese had secured most of the strategic points in the Pacific Rim and China, and were well on their way to take down Australia. Not a bad thing in itself, if you consider those potential cello pins for lutes RT To get on or off this list see list

RE: Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-09 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
To answer the question, there was the French colony Nouvelle-Orleans, now called New Orleans. It was founded in 1718 and part of the initial population was a group of Ursulines nuns; a manuscript was recently discovered in the convent containing sacred texts set to the music of Lully etc. Not

Re: Re: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread rosinfiorini
Did you ever stop to think what this world would be without America as has evolved?=20 * America has not Evolved--Ray Bradbury has evolved, kurt Vonnegut has evolve= d, even Bruce Springsteen has evolved, Norman Mailer may-be too, Tom Waits = (hehe) etc, etc, you name 'em, there so many but

RE: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
In my opinion Roman, you might do well to read up on Mao Tse-tung representing the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek representing the Guomintang, and their supply routes known as the Burma Road and the Hump. -Original Message- From: Roman Turovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: Jacob Polak

2004-12-09 Thread Roman Turovsky
I was told by a well known musicologist who happened to be my professor when I went to school that he was Polish. His name was applied much like El Greco (The Greek) was applied to the famous artist in Spain. Understanding that there were a lot of Jews in Poland it is not unlikely that he

OT: Renaissance america

2004-12-09 Thread Howard Posner
rosinfiorini wrote: The weird thing i learned recently is that the American president had a Jap= anese code decoded some days before Pearl Harbour and knew about the attack= but needed pretext to enter (highly unpopular at home) war so...he ordered= the radars at Pearl Harbour to be shut

thanks to all who replied

2004-12-09 Thread Joe Helmick
Thanks to everyone who replied to my recent question. Many of you asked what piece I'm transcribing. It's off the CD entitled Ronn McFarlane The Renaissance Lute Dorian Records DOR-90186 The piece is labeled John Come Kiss Me Now (4:10) Anon. Cozens lute book c.1600) I'm transcribing it from

Re:thanks to all who replied

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows media Player 10.0 has a function of slowing the piece without altering the original pitch: even very fast passages become clear Paolo Thanks to everyone who replied to my recent question. Many of you asked what piece I'm transcribing. It's off the CD entitled Ronn McFarlane The

Re: Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-09 Thread Antonio Corona
Dear all, --- Carl Donsbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Early colonial life was hard! The early English and Spanish colonies in North America were not characterized by much musical cultural growth, and there is little evidence of lute playing or making in those times. Musical