[LUTE] Re: tastegiata

2005-08-18 Thread Taco Walstra
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:13, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me something about the title Tastegiata which appears > in Gianoncelli. It also seems to be spelled or misspelled > tasteggiata and tastagiata. > > thank you, > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www9.plala.or.

[LUTE] Re: tastegiata

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Aug 18, 2005, at 1:58 AM, bill kilpatrick wrote: > "tastare" in italian means to feel as in "tastare il > polso" (to feel the pulse). "tasto" means to touch > and "tastiera" in musical terms means the keyboard or > - literally - "touch board." "tasteggiata" would > indicate a light touch.

[LUTE] Fw: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Bernd Haegemann
- Original Message - From: "Bernd Haegemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fossum, Arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] V. Galilei > Dear all, > > >>> The link I gave >>> >> http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread G.R. Crona
Dear List, Ariel's pledge for the duets of V. Galilei might stem from the following paper by Dinko Fabris. (So sad he's not on this list!). The whole text is available on the net, a.o. in "Magnatune's" Paul Bier recording of Michelagnolo's 1620 book. "Born in Florence the 18th of December 1575 (a

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread G.R. Crona
PS. Further research yielded the following from "New Grove", so Nr. 3 might just be the one. I'd also love to get my hands on that one. Does anybody here know of it? B.R. G. WORKS 1. Intavolature de lauto, madrigali e ricercate, libro primo (Rome, 156323); 17 ed. in IMi, iv (1934) 2. Il prim

[LUTE] Flight Cases

2005-08-18 Thread Benjamin Narvey
Dear all, I have just been in contact with one of the major musical flight case manufacturers in Europe, and after many years he has finally considered - after much manipulation from yours truly - to make such things for lutenists. This would mean that we can finally check in our lutes/theorbo

[LUTE] V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread arielabra
Dear list, First of all, thanks to all of you for you precious help. I’m experiencing all sorts of problems with this email account, so please accept my apologies for not having replied earlier. As soon as this gets fixed I’ll give more details of what I was looking for. Thanks again. Regar

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Arthur Ness
This seems to refer to the pubished contrapuncti (publ. 1584), and perhaps his words are printed in the dedication. He was born in 1575, so the date fits. These are duets in mensural notation. It would be interesting to see if any are identicalwiththe one's attrbuted to B.M. in Fronimo dialog

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei ("P.S.")

2005-08-18 Thread Arthur Ness
You need to look in the list of "Bibliographical Abbreviations" at the beginning of each volume of New Grove. SCMA, viii (1945) stands for volume 8 of the series Smith College Music Archives. Many well stocked music libraries will have that series, especially in the U.S. But I would expect yo

[LUTE] Re: tastegiata

2005-08-18 Thread Arthur Ness
I've always thought that tastar de corde was totouchthestrings inorderto seeifthey were in tune. (That's spelledtoccata, by the way. I'm having trouble with my new keyboard. The "feel" isn't right.) I'll re-type that I've always thought that Tastar de corde was to touch the strings in order to

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Arthur Ness
Bernardo Monzino is Francesco's brother. Dinko Fabris rejects the possibility that he might be B.M. due to chronology. Instead he ingeniously proposes Paolo Biemme (BM=Biemme). He also had Florentine associations, whereas Monzino was almost entirely in Rome or Milan. But Biemme was a professio

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Sean Smith
Dear all, I'm not sure I've seen references below to the earlier edition of Il Fronimo (I'm sorry I don't know the publ date --my HMBrown resides at the library ;^). It has different musical examples, eg, the Ancor che col partire and its fantasy aren't in the 1584 ed. Are there other contrap

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Sean, > I'm not sure I've seen references below to the earlier edition of Il > Fronimo (I'm sorry I don't know the publ date --my HMBrown resides at > the library ;^). It has different musical examples, eg, the Ancor che > col partire and its fantasy aren't in the 1584 ed. Are there other > c

[LUTE] Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-18 Thread Sean Smith
Aha! The perfect answer! I rarely go to the LSA page --more fool me. Thanks Arto, Sean On Aug 18, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Arto Wikla wrote: > Dear Sean, > >> I'm not sure I've seen references below to the earlier edition of Il >> Fronimo (I'm sorry I don't know the publ date --my HMBrown resides at

[LUTE] Fw: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
I've recently had some communications from Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the developer of LilyPond, who is interested in adding lute tabulature functionality to his software, FOR A FEE. He is interested to know what lute tab "ARE", and what "THEY" takes. He is CC'ed in this message. LP seem

[LUTE] Re: Fw: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Taco Walstra
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:06, you wrote: Han-wen nienhuys did a marvelous job as programmer (at university utrecht here in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented but can be run from the windows bashshell (cygwin). Installing the latest version on linux is even quite complicat

[LUTE] Re: Fw: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
> Han-wen nienhuys did a marvelous job as programmer (at university utrecht here > in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented And that is quite a problem, because linux people seem to think that the rest of us love programming. but can be run from > the windows bashshell (cygwin).

[LUTE] Re: Re: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Herbert Ward
> ... linux people seem to think that the > rest of us love programming. This is a wild generalization from RT. Linux has dozens of point-and-click programs of first-rate quality and everyday usefulness. A sample: spreadsheets personal finance word processors drawing progr

[LUTE] Re: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Taco Walstra
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:46, you wrote: > > Han-wen nienhuys did a marvelous job as programmer (at university utrecht > > here > > > in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented > > And that is quite a problem, because linux people seem to think that the > rest of us love programm

[LUTE] Re: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
> > > in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented > > > > And that is quite a problem, because linux people seem to think that the > > rest of us love programming. > In the same spirit: windows people love computerviruses. > As herbert said, linux is surely not only for programmers; 1

[LUTE] Re: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
> > > in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented > > > > And that is quite a problem, because linux people seem to think that the > > rest of us love programming. > In the same spirit: windows people love computerviruses. There is simply no reason to write a virus that no one would

[LUTE] Re: Six Music Notation Programs - engraving comparison

2005-08-18 Thread Alain Veylit
Hi all, Personally, I have never been totally happy with the Windows environment, but I feel stuck with it because of 10 years of development... For one thing the data files are not exportable to any other platforms. So the hard work of transcribing music may be easily lost, and the number one

[LUTE] Re: tastegiata

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Aug 18, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Arthur Ness wrote: > Now Gianconcelli also has movements called "La sua spezzata" > following gagliardas and correntes. What does _that_ mean. Most > of them take the previous gagliarda or corrente and present it in a > broken chord figurations. So it seems t

[LUTE] Re: guitares en bateau

2005-08-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
For Eugene Braig et al. What do you make of this? http://www.renard-music.com/selectficheinstrument.php3?1000171 H To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: guitares en bateau

2005-08-18 Thread Alain Veylit
Wow, that page has lots of stuff: a 17th century lute, a keyboard harp, a ca. 1700 7-course gamba, a vihuela (1961 modern copy still worth 15000 euros mind you...). A mere 300 years from now, your lute will be worth something! I think that unfortunately the author's English gets in the way some

[LUTE] Re: guitares en bateau

2005-08-18 Thread ahart
Sometime ago there was some correspondence regarding seats for correct playing position. Maybe this is a suggestion! [1]http://www.europebynet.com/Detail_nn_sku_ISTLT011.html Perhaps, good for 'chamber' music!! BTW, Alain, maybe the reference wasn't mother of pearl after all!!