[LUTE] Re: Karamazov as a circus musician

2008-03-24 Thread gary digman
Spike Jones said, If you're going to shoot off a gun in a tune, you better have good time. Gary - Original Message - From: Sean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:02 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov as a circus musician For the

[LUTE] Re: Igor(?) and Guiliani?

2008-03-24 Thread igor .
.even for an idiot like me ! You have said it all. Thank you Alfonso, but please try to understand that not everyone is handsome, talented and clever like you are. Your lutevoice website is probably one of the best i ever seen. I am sure you have enough concerts around the

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread Arthur Ness
- Original Message - From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:02 PM Subject: [LUTE] Nina bass line |I have to reverse engineer a 'proper' bass line to Nina (canzonetta), long | wrongly attributed to Pergolesi but actually by Legrenzi

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread David Tayler
Given the editorial history of these pieces, one has a right, even if overly doubtful, to be doubtful. And perhaps they are doubtful, in any case. Though for a real opera imagina, look at the Siena Pianoforte recording of Scarlatti and Mozart jacket notes. Anyway, what would be cool is to

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread Arthur Ness
- Original Message - From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:01 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nina bass line | Here's a poor score from those song antholgies: | | http://www.el-atril.com/partituras/Pergolesi/Nina.pdf | | | Thank

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread Arthur Ness
You've got a Xerox of the score in Modena, David. UC Berkeley Music f M2.8.R47 T7 UCB Case X And one of the librettos is on-line in digital format if you subscribe to Gale. As far as I know, the song first appears with piano accompaniment almost 100 years after the opera. Attr. to Pergolesi.

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread dc
LGS-Europe écrit: Can someone with the book identify the composers from the following titles and their number in the MB volume 25?: According to their website, this music in this volume is by Richard Dering: Volume 25 Richard Dering: Secular Vocal Music Dennis To get on or off this

[LUTE] plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread Doc Rossi
I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance music mostly from France, Belgium and Austria. I'd like to have a non-keyboard plucked instrument in the bass. What are my options besides theorbo, archlute, harp? Mandora and Colascione come to mind - is there anything else?

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread LGS-Europe
Arthur wrote: Separately I sent a reference for the authentic edition of the Italian anthology (ed. Paton). The one you were looking for. Yes, a good edition actually. It has the songs from Arie Antiche with good translations, pronounciation guide, facsimile if available and a more 'hip'

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread LGS-Europe
These are the Italian originals Dering added English lyrics to in his edition of 1620. I'm interested in the names of the Italian composers. But the concert is in two hours from now. ;-) Anybody? David - Original Message - From: dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LGS-Europe [EMAIL

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread David Tayler
Viol. dt At 03:06 AM 3/24/2008, you wrote: I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance music mostly from France, Belgium and Austria. I'd like to have a non-keyboard plucked instrument in the bass. What are my options besides theorbo, archlute, harp? Mandora and Colascione come to

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread David Tayler
Also, good look finding one, but it seems a nice place to try out the cithrinchen which became folkified as the Thüringer Waldzither in some of the areas you describe mid 18th c. I've always wanted a Tielke knock off. I assume you've looked into guitar variants as well. dt At 03:06 AM

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread David Tayler
I think the advantage to putting this info online, not just for musicologists with Case X access (the x files), is for the average musician/voice student who has ben fed dreadful versions of pieces-- pieces that could provide a terrific reason to study early music. Also, by putting it online,

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread Doc Rossi
I thought of viol - that was actually my first choice after bassoon - but I'm wondering about bass instruments that I don't know about. The little cittern is too small for bass, but I've been lusting after a Tielke myself for a very long time. Baroque guitar and chitarra battente also

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread Roman Turovsky
Unfortunately I am currently unable to back this up by a hard copy, but the Nina it its present form (i.e. as it appears in AA etc. is SEVERELY (and happily) RECOMPOSED, in comparison with the simple and cheesy original, which starts with a 5th jump rather than 1-3-5, has a repeat of the 1st

[LUTE] Re: Igor(?) and Guiliani?

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 07:24 PM 3/23/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/2008, igor . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear mr. giuliani professional lutenist should have more different sized lutes ( guitars ) instead of cheap bluegrass capo ! orlearn to transpose ( maybe ) Could you, Mr., Mrs,

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread Doc Rossi
I've thought of French arch-citterns and double-neck citterns, too. What I'd really like is bandora... Perhaps there was a bass cittern, like the one in the painting by Saftleven. On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:47 PM, David Tayler wrote: Also, good look finding one, but it seems a nice place to try

[LUTE] Re: Faria

2008-03-24 Thread Bruno Fournier
Hi, He replied to me after several weeks, just recently, I was inquiring about a medieval lute, but his advertised prices on the Web are way lower than what they really are...so I am still debating if I will order a medieval lute from him. There is less advantage for me to look a for a lute so

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 06:06 AM 3/24/2008, Doc Rossi wrote: I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance music mostly from France, Belgium and Austria. I'd like to have a non-keyboard plucked instrument in the bass. What are my options besides theorbo, archlute, harp? Mandora and Colascione come to mind

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread Doc Rossi
Thanks, Eugene - I'd thought of these, too. Maybe I'm looking for something that doesn't exist. On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: At 06:06 AM 3/24/2008, Doc Rossi wrote: I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance music mostly from France, Belgium and

[LUTE] Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear David, I would also be interested to know more about how capos were used in the past. I have an old English guitar from about 1760, which has four holes in the neck through which one can screw a capo. Capos would have to be curved to match any curve on the fingerboard, and frets would need

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
I've never looked into the scholarship behind this, so can't vouch, but this appears on the surface to be amusing and informative: http://web.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/ Eugene At 10:18 AM 3/24/2008, Stewart McCoy wrote: Dear David, I would also be interested to know more about how capos

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread G. Crona
If the Capo Museum is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c! - Original Message - From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:18 PM Subject: [LUTE] Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician) Dear David, I

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Arthur Ness
The works were originally in Italian, published by Dering in Antwerp in 1620. Actually I do not know who made the English translations. =AJN (Boston, Mass.)= Free Download of the Week Wagner's Siegfried Idyll performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman,

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 10:54 AM 3/24/2008, G. Crona wrote: If the Capo Museum is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c! I don't know the specifics of Stewart's guit[t]ar or which page you are considering at the Capo Museum, but Both the yoke capo with screw and the wooden Spanish capo cejilla were

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread G. Crona
Hi Eugene, I was referring to this page, but also noticed the text you mentioned on the history page. Is the webmaster contradicting himself? Best G. - Original Message - From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 11:10 AM 3/24/2008, G. Crona wrote: Sorry ;) http://web.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/Above/above.htm Hmmm... I don't know, but suspect that to be a typographic error in which 18th century morphed into 1800s somewhere between mind and fingers. Eugene To get on or off this list see

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread Arthur Ness
There's also a microfilm of the Modena score at UCB. It would be easy to use it for a digital file. =AJN (Boston, Mass.)= Free Download of the Week Wagner's Siegfried Idyll performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor. For this week's free download

[LUTE] Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread Stewart McCoy
Fortunately you are not right. :-) The section on the history of the capo says that the screw-through-the-neck capos were in use in the late 1700s: Both the yoke capo with screw and the wooden Spanish capo cejilla were invented in the late 1700's. The yoke capo still looks the same, and the

[LUTE] Re: Capos

2008-03-24 Thread LGS-Europe
Must have sent too many mails today, as this one never arrived: Stewart wrote: The big problem is having a capo which provides enough pressure to hold all the strings down without buzzing. Modern ones use elastic or a kind of spring mechanism, but I don't know how feasible that was in the

[LUTE] Re: Capos

2008-03-24 Thread howard posner
On Mar 24, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: Modern ones use elastic or a kind of spring mechanism Not all. I have an earlier version of this one: http://www.activemusician.com/item--MC.14FD? ref=brovchn=BIZovtac=CMPovcpn=Accessoriesovcrn=Dunlop+Professional +Guitar+Capo+%2D+Flat

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

2008-03-24 Thread David Rastall
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: By the way, I was given the instrument a few years ago by John Catch, the atomic energy expert and long-standing member of the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain. He said he bought it for 10/- in the 1950s at a jumble sale 10/-

[LUTE] Re: Capos

2008-03-24 Thread G. Crona
howard posner wrote: Modern ones use elastic or a kind of spring mechanism Not all. I have an earlier version of this one: Easy to use and durable The Dunlop is simple but genial, very good and easily adjustable. I've used it extensibly. G. To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamin Narvey
--=_Part_13105_23880445.1206381180527 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Here it is - hope this works! Best, Benjamin On 24/03/2008, Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an article in Music and

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamin Narvey
*NEWLY IDENTIFIED ITALIAN MADRIGALS * Copy paste try 2..(scroll down - sorry) *ENGLISHED * DURING the last four decades a number of well-known scholars, including Joseph Kerman and Alfredo Obertello,' have written extensively about the impact of Italian vocal music on Elizabethan

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamin Narvey
* Copy paste try 1.. Newly Identified Italian Madrigals Englished * Richard Charteris * Music Letters*, Vol. 63, No. 3/4. (Jul. - Oct., 1982), pp. 276-280. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4224%28198207%2F10%2963%3A3%2F4%3C276%3ANIIME%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C * Music

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamin Narvey
Hi there, Has that worked? Best, Benjamin On 24/03/2008, Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an article in Music and Letters to which I have no access (Oxford charges $23 a day!) http://tinyurl.com/yskj29 which might contain more information. g On 24.03.2008, at 18:13, dc

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Gernot Hilger
Thank you, Benjamin. This worked in fact. Unfortunately, there are no details about the original composers. Charteris however states ...where they are all unattributed... which means he thinks the pieces are in fact Italian. g On 24.03.2008, at 18:53, Benjamin Narvey wrote: Here it is -

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Benjamin Narvey
Oh, that's too bad. I didn't actually read the article, I just thought I'd liberate that article from Oxford JStore! Happy hunting, Benjamin On 24/03/2008, Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, Benjamin. This worked in fact. Unfortunately, there are no details about the

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread Bernd Haegemann
This worked in fact. Unfortunately, there are no details about the .. and it is already too late... 3 hours after the concert. David's revenge will be horrible ;-)) B. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

2008-03-24 Thread LGS-Europe
Thank you, Benjamin, that was helpful in that I now know I'm not the only one who doesn't know. ;-) David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl *NEWLY IDENTIFIED ITALIAN MADRIGALS * Copy paste try

[LUTE] Re: plucked bass

2008-03-24 Thread David Tayler
I have to say from my own dimly lit experience, there is nothing as cool sounding as a cello or viol plucking the bass, arpeggiating some figured bass and adding some little melodic fragments, with theorbo organ. I've done a number of projects that feature this texture on some of the tracks,

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

2008-03-24 Thread LGS-Europe
Hoi Jelma Dank je wel! Great, yet another father to Nina. I'll be playing it in May in Japan on my Fabricatore, so this might be the most contemporary version for that instrument. The reason it's on the programme is that there is a Japanese edition of the piece, and I'll be doing a programme

[LUTE] Luigi Rossi on the tubes

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Shoskes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Z3D4c8KWI Beautiful piece from a reliably excellent group. I believe it is Eero Palvianen on the giraffe. DS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html