[LUTE] Re: Another Theorbo Question

2006-10-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
> Lucas, > >What about the dm lute in ensemble music, period? > We know that there is actually a significant amount of > music for baroque lute with other instruments. > Supposedly, Weiss worked to invent the swan neck lute > especially so that it could be heard in instrumental > groups. Swan-

[LUTE] Re: Another Theorbo Question

2006-10-06 Thread chriswilke
Lucas, What about the dm lute in ensemble music, period? We know that there is actually a significant amount of music for baroque lute with other instruments. Supposedly, Weiss worked to invent the swan neck lute especially so that it could be heard in instrumental groups. And, although we

[LUTE] Re: BWV 992

2006-10-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
Erdmann's destination was Danzig, so the metaphor isn't quite working here RT > Dear Daniel and all others > > It may be a beautiful piece - but... > If you hear it on meantone temperated harpsichord you will > understand the texts: the far the person is from Germany, the wronger > sounds

[LUTE] Re: BWV 992

2006-10-06 Thread Daniel Shoskes
Then supposedly Leon Fleisher's recording on a modern equal tempered piano is equally non-sensical, but it's a great performance. Can you recommend any recordings on a meantone harpsichord that could show me what I am missing in the piece? DS (after all the Sting/Dowland argument on the main l

[LUTE] Re: Another Theorbo Question

2006-10-06 Thread Rob Dorsey
Howard et al, Actually there is apparently, reading Narvey, considerable evidence that English theorbists adopted the Dm tuning despite it being a French initiative. Go figger' huh? Rob Dorsey http://RobDorsey.com -Original Message- From: Howard Posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fr

[LUTE] Re: Another Theorbo Question

2006-10-06 Thread Phalese
In einer eMail vom 06.10.2006 09:26:20 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But what would our collective "hip police" say about playing > Gaultier, Weiss, Falkenhagen, Losy, etc. by a single strung > instrument... ;-)) > > Arto > Nothing new about that have a look

[LUTE] Re: Another Theorbo Question

2006-10-06 Thread Arto Wikla
Hi all > Yet another theorbo question. It seems to me that a moderately-sized > solo theorbo in D minor tuning would be a good all-purpose Baroque > lute upon which one could play the "modern" late 17th/early 18th- > century continuo, as well as all the German (and maybe even some of > the Frenc