Top three lute pieces

2005-01-17 Thread thomas . schall
The top 3 of the day for renaissance lute: M.Reymann: Fantasia super Vom Himmel Hoch the Valderabanos duets the Heckel duets for baroque lute: St.Luc: Suit in f# minor the Telemann duets much of Le Sage's music there are a lot of pieces by composers which are a constant pleasure for me. Mo

Re: weiss for ukulele

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Murphy
Tony, I would expect that you will get some foolish messages on this (to be played as Weisskiki, or whatever). But there are many instruments in the world - and there have been many fine composers. An arrangement may be an orchestration of a simpler piece, or it may be taking an orchestral score a

Re: POD

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Shoskes
>From my "premium priced seat" 3 rows from the back, I saw his right thumb in action 3 times during the 2 hr concert and on those occasions it was out (but playing lower courses at the time). >Thanks for the report, Daniel, this indeed is fascinating news. Did he >play thumb-in or-out? > >Regard

Re: weiss for ukulele

2005-01-17 Thread Tony Chalkley
No, honestly, it does exist, and someone _did_ post a message in the last couple of months with the link. As it happens, I don't yet have a ukelele, but I thought this might be a fun place to start. I shall have to look on the archives. - Original Message - From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAI

RE: Lyn Elder?

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Hansen
Jason and all: Lyn has moved to Vermont. Here is his current contact information: 74 North Street Bristol, VT 05443 His e-mail address remains as before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Mon 01/17, Jason Yoshida < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Jason Yoshida [mailto

Re: POD

2005-01-17 Thread A.J. Padilla, M.D.
It was yesterday, as part of the Music Before 1800 series. Extremely well done, on a relatively new 13c baroque lute. From his comments, it was his first foray into baroque (public) performance. I was in the 5th row or so, and from my vantage point, it appeared that he was playing thumb under mo

Re: Gianoncelli ornaments 1650

2005-01-17 Thread Taco Walstra
On Friday 14 January 2005 18:45, you wrote: Not mentioned among the other replies are the works by Pietro Paolo Melii. Which is contrary to the others in his ornament indications, but explains what he means. He writes the following in 'il quinto libro' ' ... dove trovarai un T come questo anteced

Re: Gianoncelli ornaments 1650

2005-01-17 Thread Howard Posner
Gianoncelli marks open strings with a T, where an appoggiatura from the note below is unlikely. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Gianoncelli ornaments 1650

2005-01-17 Thread Andrea Damiani
>Mathias Roesel wrote: >So, I'd say that combinations of trills or mordents with appogiature >from above or below were European, not only French. BTW in French >baroque lute music, mordents or trills do _not_ always start from upper >notes. Have a look into Jacques Gallot's table of ornaments (167

Re: Gianoncelli ornaments 1650

2005-01-17 Thread Andrea Damiani
Tacho Walstra wrote: >Another indication is >'dove trovarai un diesis come questo XX (he indicates something which looks >like a 'w'), ponterai col dito nella nota dove sera sotto facendo sostenare >la voce alla cora a pocho a pocho' >which I interprete as making a mordent with the note below the

Re: Gianoncelli ornaments 1650

2005-01-17 Thread "Mathias Rösel"
Dear Andrea, martellement is what I had in mind, indeed. What I was trying to say was that French ornaments don't necessarily start from auxiliary notes. Although using differing signs, Gallot and Mouton agree that the martellement starts from the main note. (Harpsicordists like Francois Couperin

Introduce your lutes to the list!

2005-01-17 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
Dear All, I am back again after an intense period of work that did not allow me to keep up reading the messages. Now that I am on the market for a new 10 or 11-course lute I realized how difficult it is to choose the right maker among the many ones available today. It is difficult to get refer

Introduce your lutes to the list!

2005-01-17 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
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Re: Nylgut

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel F Heiman
For the general edification, I have posted Mimmo's US patent for the manufacture of musical instrument strings on the "Downloads" page of the LSA website: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/download/index.html#patent Regards, Daniel Heiman