[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: harmonic tones

2008-01-04 Thread H L Pakker
Hi Chris, Can I find a copy of this Sonata II somewhere (on the web)? Henk - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: H L Pakker [EMAIL PROTECTED]; baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: harmonic tones Henk, At

[LUTE] Re: metal contraption/RH on the bridge?

2008-01-04 Thread Ron Fletcher
Hi Roman, Ed and other interested parties, In discussing the possibility of reversal of the painting of the lutenist on http://www.aquilacorde.com/lutes.htm I recently suggested the painting is NOT a mirror image on the basis of the subject's hair style. Roman replied... Is hair parting

[LUTE] Re: Slightly OT But Happy New Year anyway

2008-01-04 Thread G. Crona
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[LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Gibbs
Lovely - can tell us more about the song? Also - what is the defintion of a contrepartie? Andrew On 4 Jan 2008, at 13:32, Roman Turovsky wrote: Lest we fall into emotional/intellectual complacency, A 6-course intabulation of a song of SeductionAbandonmentInfanticide-

[LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets

2008-01-04 Thread Narada
Contrepartie. French word meaning compensation or exchange. N -Original Message- From: Andrew Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2008 13:48 To: Roman Turovsky Cc: Lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets Lovely - can tell us more about the song? Also

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Gibbs
He's going to perform his one man show _Finery and Filth_ at the next Lute Society (UK) meeting on the 19th. Apparently it _contains lyrics not suitable for those of a Puritan disposition_. Sounds like my kind of thing. Andrew On 4 Jan 2008, at 13:37, Ron Fletcher wrote: I was watching

[LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets

2008-01-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
Lest we fall into emotional/intellectual complacency, A 6-course intabulation of a song of SeductionAbandonmentInfanticide- http://torban.org/ruthenicae/images/215.pdf http://torban.org/audio/215.mp3 With a contrapartie by a Dutch friend- http://torban.org/audio/215H.mp3 Enjoy RT To

[LUTE] Re: [delian] Re: as dark as it gets

2008-01-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
That's the nature of the text attached to this melody, believe it or not. The last stanza mentiones the unbaptized infants swaying among the weeds in eddies. This was the sociologically significant result of wenching for sport, practiced by the officer corps in the Imperial Russian

[LUTE] Re: metal contraption/RH on the bridge?

2008-01-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
Hi Roman, Ed and other interested parties, In discussing the possibility of reversal of the painting of the lutenist on http://www.aquilacorde.com/lutes.htm I recently suggested the painting is NOT a mirror image on the basis of the subject's hair style. Roman replied... Is hair parting

[LUTE] Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Ron Fletcher
I was watching local TV-news last night when there was a feature on an Elizabethan period performer from Lincolnshire. He has recently discovered a book of 'bawdy drinking-songs' written by Henry Purcell, a composer we would not readily associate with this type of music. Dante Ferrara is an

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Guy Smith
You'll also find at least a couple of Purcell pieces in the Baltimore Consort's CD of bawdy/drinking songs. -Original Message- From: howard posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 8:42 AM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finery Filth... On Jan

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread howard posner
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Ron Fletcher wrote: He has recently discovered a book of 'bawdy drinking-songs' written by Henry Purcell, a composer we would not readily associate with this type of music. Of course we would. Purcell is known for his bawdy catches, they've been performed

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Ron Fletcher
- You can be pretty sure a lot of people were doing it. Best to all, C. I always thought secks was what the posh people had their coal in... Ron (UK) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Stetson
Hi, all, Hey, let's not perpetuate the Victorian myth that the Puritans didn't like sex, and even probably laugh at the occasional bawdy joke. There wouldn't be nearly so many of us Puritan descendants if that were the case! Blasphemy, (which is now, of course, ok!) no, but bawdiness (now not

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread howard posner
On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Christopher Stetson wrote: Hey, let's not perpetuate the Victorian myth that the Puritans didn't like sex, Robert Adams, my favorite professor at UCLA (he was editor of the 17th century portion of the Norton Anthology of English Literature) noted that

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Guy Smith
The Puritans approved, after all, of the practice of bundling (at least, they did in colonial Massachusetts, I'm not sure about elsewhere). -Original Message- From: Christopher Stetson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:26 AM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject:

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Stetson
Yes, and Puritan ministers apparently often married couples, my ancestors likely among them, who were already pregnant (please forgive my logically indefensible, but modernly popular and grammatically expedient shortcut!) or even with children. However, it must be noted that the theory was, to

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread wikla
On 1/4/2008, Daniel Winheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...if the ministers and priests were preaching against something, you can be pretty sure a lot of people were doing it. AHA! Mean tempered frets! Tastini! Where does the degeneracy and perversion end? That was good one! I enjoyed,

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Stetson
And a fine tradition it is! Great emoticon, BTW. C. Ray Brohinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/4/2008 3:08 pm Actually, more than a few latter-day Puritan descendents still keep up the tradition. 8^) On Jan 4, 2008 3:01 PM, Christopher Stetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and Puritan ministers

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread howard posner
He said it in class. He never finished the sentence, and I'm sure never planned to, knowing from long experience where the laughs would come. On Jan 4, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Stuart LeBlanc wrote: Could I trouble you to provide the remainder of the quote (beyond the ellipsis)? Or a citation.

[LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...

2008-01-04 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
Howard, you rock. Could I trouble you to provide the remainder of the quote (beyond the ellipsis)? Or a citation. -Original Message- From: howard posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:10 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Finery Filth...