Ops, I was thinking about who performed in the Mozart version. Could that
have been Straube? Of course, it would be interesting to know who
performed in the original version as well!
And what kind of lutes where used? Archlute for H=E4ndel and baroque lute
for Mozart? It would be extremly
A short vertical line is often used to visually connect wide-spaced
elements of a chord (forestalling misreading) -
c-
--
|-
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--
c-
Or a most definitive plaquée (together) as opposed to séparée (broken chord)
in some French baroque sources.
David
To get
Dear Arthur,
Thanks very much for that info about the picture. I thought Mozart
looked rather podgy and round nosed compared with other portraits!!
I'll add your information to the page.
Best wishes,
David
At 10:30 AM -0500 30/1/06, Arthur Ness wrote:
Dear David,
Thanks for posting the
Can anyone tell me Ron McFarlane's email address and/or adress and
phone number.
His WWW site
http://www.ronnmcfarlane.com/
has has a Contact link which yields
2555 Snowberry Ridge Court
West Linn, OR 97068
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The social stigma attached to acting had to do with its lowly origins,
a sort of form of beggary, even associated with prostitution. Even
Many Elizabethan moralists wanted to ban theater as licentious ...
To make this lute related, the same stigma doesn't seem to have
applied to music.
From this perspective, what should we make of Thos. Campion's Maske of
Flowers where nobility acted out and sang the parts?
Sean Smith
Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The social stigma attached to acting
had to do with its lowly origins,
a sort of form of beggary, even
Shakespeare is referring to a minstrel.
In the late sixteenth and seventeen century in England (and I suspect
elsewhere) there were several classes of musicians. On the scale of
respectability, minstrel would be relatively low.
At the top were the Court musicians and members of the Chapel
For fans of both O'Dette and iTunes, I notice that they have just added 16 POD
albums (Harmonia Mundi) to the iTunes store. Of course, most readers of this
list probably own them already.
Hopefully this trend will continue!
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This refefines podcast, doesn't it?
RT
For fans of both O'Dette and iTunes, I notice that they have just added 16
POD albums (Harmonia Mundi) to the iTunes store. Of course, most readers
of this list probably own them already.
Hopefully this trend will continue!
To get on or off this
Herbert Ward wrote:
How did music so completely escape its low-class association,
and drama so completely fail?
Music, as such, was not associated with low class. Musicians
occupied valued positions in churches and noble/royal households, and
every well-bred person was expected to be able
Good point. Court masques were certainly acceptable activities for nobles of
both sexes. Elizabeth herself performed in them. I'm not sure how we can
explain the difference in perception. Perhaps the fact that the theater was a
paid venue? Or that with court masques the audience was composed of
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