[LUTE] Weiss radio documentary

2006-11-10 Thread Peter Hoar
Some may be interested in a radio documentary on New Zealand's Concert FM about S.L. Weiss and 18th century lute music. This goes to air Sunday 12 Nov 9:00am (NZ time) and is repeated Monday 13 Nov 7:00pm. It's about half an hour long and is aimed at a general audience. Concert FM does not archive

[LUTE] Re: Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread Edward Martin
I hate garlic!! ed At 05:49 PM 11/10/2006 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote: >In fact, there is a Mattheson quote about guitars that "are only >appropriate for Spanish music, with their garlicky foods". >RT >>Hi all! >> >>>An archlute would be very appropriate, and fine. From all accounts,, >>>anythi

[LUTE] Re: Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread Edward Martin
Perhaps,. you are correct, from the perspective of church music.At 06:19 PM 11/10/2006 +0100, Are Vidar Boye Hansen wrote: >Hi all! > >>An archlute would be very appropriate, and fine. From all accounts,, >>anything could have been used, including archlutes, theorbi, baroque >>guitars, battente,

[LUTE] Re: Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread Roman Turovsky
In fact, there is a Mattheson quote about guitars that "are only appropriate for Spanish music, with their garlicky foods". RT > Hi all! > >> An archlute would be very appropriate, and fine. From all accounts,, >> anything could have been used, including archlutes, theorbi, baroque >> guitars, ba

[LUTE] Re: Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread Arthur Ness
Some of these sacred (and secular) ensemble pieces even have a guitar part in alfabeto. There is an article on theguitar as contrinuo instrument by Strizich in the italian guitar journal Fronimo. Zroundthe '70s.(??) It hits allthe highpoints, and so is a good start. - Original Message -

[LUTE] Re: Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread dc
Are Vidar Boye Hansen écrit: > It worked fine, but I have never seeen >any evidence that all kinds of different continuo instruments were used in >baroque church music. If would love to know what your sources are! Title pages of sacred music often refer to this possibility. On example among many

[LUTE] Sacred lute continuo (was: Re: Buxtehude & Lutes)

2006-11-10 Thread Are Vidar Boye Hansen
Hi all! > An archlute would be very appropriate, and fine. From all accounts,, > anything could have been used, including archlutes, theorbi, baroque > guitars, battente, guitars, gambi, etc. Really? Last sunday I played archlute continuo for Schutz' Musikalische Exequien with a baroque guitari

[LUTE] Re: Buxtehude & Lutes

2006-11-10 Thread Edward Martin
An archlute would be very appropriate, and fine. From all accounts,, anything could have been used, including archlutes, theorbi, baroque guitars, battente, guitars, gambi, etc. ed At 03:46 PM 11/10/2006 +0800, Edward C. Yong wrote: >Dear Chaps, > >Greetings from sunny and humid Singapore! > >

[LUTE] Re: Buxtehude & Lutes

2006-11-10 Thread LGS-Europe
> I've been asked to play for Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri next March, > accompanying a chamber choir and a quartet of string players. I haven't a > Theorbo, but would an Archlute be inappropriate? It's a large Harz-model, > so > it's pretty loud... > > I haven't seen the music yet, but would it

[LUTE] Re: Buxtehude & Lutes

2006-11-10 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Edward, > I've been asked to play for Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri next > March, accompanying a chamber choir and a quartet of string players. > I haven't a Theorbo, but would an Archlute be inappropriate? It's a > large Harz-model, so it's pretty loud... > > I haven't seen the music yet,