[LUTE] Extravaganza (OT)

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel F Heiman
The center part of the US tends to be an early music desert compared to either of the coasts, but lately the Chicago area has begun to perk up a bit, with a few more local musicians putting on relatively high-quality performances. In addition, there are sometimes outreach events designed to engage

[LUTE] St Matthew Passion

2008-04-17 Thread David Rastall
Dear Wisdom, I need to get a good recording of the Matthew Passion. Can any of you suggest one? I have a recording by Harnancourt on vinyl dating from 1970, and it's a marvellous performance, but I think it's time to get an up-to-date recording on CD. Can anyone suggest a good recording

[LUTE] Re: continuo playing in Germany

2008-04-17 Thread thomas schall
It already is - teh text comes with english translation. Thomas - Original Message - From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mathias Rösel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "rodrigo demetrio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:05 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: continuo playing

[LUTE] Re: continuo playing in Germany

2008-04-17 Thread Mathias Rösel
"Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Is there any possibility that this will be translated into English? > > Rob Rainer Luckhardt of Seicento music and I took care that this was done with the 1st edition. The English translation comes as an extra booklet. Mathias > > Please excuse t

[LUTE] Re: continuo playing in Germany

2008-04-17 Thread Rob MacKillop
Is there any possibility that this will be translated into English? Rob On 17/04/2008, "Mathias R=F6sel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please excuse tze shameless ad: Order Fundamenta der Lauten-Musique from > Deutsche Lautengesellschaft. It's a tutor for continuo with 11c lute in > D minor

[LUTE] Re: continuo playing in Germany

2008-04-17 Thread Mathias Rösel
"rodrigo demetrio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Dear lute players, > I am new in this forum. > I would like to have information about lute continuo playing in Germany at > the end of XVII century. Many sources of solo lute music are in d tuning but > I don't find continuo sources which speak abou

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread howard posner
On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:26 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: > I was going to write to him and the guy who wrote the article, but > thought > better of it. We reap what we sow. It's not the first time I've had > quotation remarks around comments I never made. Seems to be the way > reporters work. Nothing t

[LUTE] Re: OT: Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
American credulity is proverbial. Hence Mark Twain's dictum "Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see!". RT At 12:52 PM 4/17/2008, howard posner wrote: Americans are not sophisticated consumers of information, and are easily lied to. Rather than "Americans", I think you mean

[LUTE] Re: OT: Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 12:52 PM 4/17/2008, howard posner wrote: >Americans are not sophisticated consumers of information, and are easily >lied to. Rather than "Americans", I think you mean "human beings in general"...but not necessarily lutenists...maybe...? Eugene To get on or off this list see list informa

[LUTE] Sigh No More Ladies

2008-04-17 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Peter, "Beauty sat bathing" was also set by Francis Pilkington, with a rather nice "Hey nonny" refrain in slow motion. You might prefer Pilkington's setting to Jones. Presumably the words of "Sigh no more ladies" would fit both settings equally well. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -Origin

[LUTE] Less OT: Reportage

2008-04-17 Thread howard posner
A propos of the Snopes Urban legend web site, I meant to mention that you can find a debunking of a truly idiotic story (a column in the Houston Chronicle) about Itzhak Perlman playing an entire concerto on three strings at: http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/perlman.asp To get on or of

[LUTE] OT: Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread howard posner
On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim wrote: >> >> Fact-checking takes time, and editors must be paid, so accurate >> reporting is >> time- and labor-intensive. Today's blogosphere, which rewards >> unschooled >> right-wing loudmouths who spew half-truths and worse, has n

[LUTE] Re: Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread corun
Joseph wrote: > >OK Boys - If you can't get along we're going to have to move you to >different seats. That's a bit condescending, don't you think? Jim and I have known each other for quite a few years and have never had an argument. We're not having one now either. We get along just fine, thank

[LUTE] Re: Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph Mayes
OK Boys - If you can't get along we're going to have to move you to different seats. Saying that we can't talk of politics and then making reference to " Film makers who produce alleged documentaries and former Vice > Presidents who claim to have invented the Internet and be the Fount of All > Kno

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Cock-a-doodle-do, then ! By the way, do you know why a rooster is the national emblem of France ? Because It's the only bird that can sing with its feet in the s Sorry, completely out of the way but I couldn't resist ;-) Best, Jean-Marie, from France... === 17-04-2008 16:26:59 ==

[LUTE] ATTAINGNANT Heartz

2008-04-17 Thread Anthony Hind
Does any body know whether Daniel Heartz' "Preludes, chansons and dances for lute, published by Pierre ATTAINGNANT" contains both the tablature and analysis of this music, or specifically the analyses. Anthony To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~w

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Tůma Petr
in Czech - Kohaut/Kohout in Slovak - Kohut / Kohút = Coq = Hahn = Cock Petr T. -Original Message- From: Jean-Marie Poirier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:22 AM To: lute Subject: [LUTE] Re: Aarrrgg!!! Kohut... ? Could he be a misspelt reincarnation of Koh

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread David Rastall
On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:51 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fact-checking takes time, and editors must be paid, so accurate > reporting is > time- and labor-intensive. Today's blogosphere, which rewards > unschooled > right-wing loudmouths who spew half-truths and worse, has no > interest in

[LUTE] Reportage (was Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!)

2008-04-17 Thread corun
Dear Jim, et. al., While this is not the forum for political rantings, I can not in good conscience let some of these comments go unanswered. And you, Jim, also know that I respect you and consider you a friend even though we have some fundamental disagreements on this topic. Which is why we ne

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread jslute
Dear Daniel, Rob, and All: Yes, I work at the Washington Post, although nowadays I'm mostly an editor. There are many kinds of reporters. One is a new breed of Internet or blog reporter, who functions without journalism training or editorial oversight. Perhaps he (or she) is a reporter simply b

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
With such things, it's hard to tell how much misinformation can be attributed to Kohut or to the article's author. It's not uncommon for me to be misquoted. ...Although the MacKillop "quote" seems pretty damning. This guy is evidently a paddler too, his e-mail involving "kayak." I'll look f

[LUTE] continuo playing in Germany

2008-04-17 Thread rodrigo demetrio
Dear lute players, I am new in this forum. I would like to have information about lute continuo playing in Germany at the end of XVII century. Many sources of solo lute music are in d tuning but I don't find continuo sources which speak about the appropriated instruments and tunings used at that ti

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel Shoskes
On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: Ooooh, I have remembered, the last time I mentioned lawyers, all the lutists on our list turned out to be barristers, I mentioned bows and lutes, and everyone was an archer, gun-buts and lutes and up popped a few lute playing gun-smiths. How ma

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Daniel Shoskes
This happens to me all the time in my day job. They take something from prior articles or even my webpage, put quotes around it and make it look as though they did an exclusive face to face interview. As long as what they quote is actually true to what you have said, I think you have minima

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
In fact is is another regional variety of the same name. RT Kohut... ? Could he be a misspelt reincarnation of Kohaut ? ;-))) Jean-Marie === 16-04-2008 23:28:48 === This page left me speechless: http://www.kiltmagazine.com/KiltMagMusic0305.html - does anyone know this guy? He even '

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Anthony Hind
> Le 17 avr. 08 =E0 10:26, Rob MacKillop a ecrit : >> > > > Just a thought - maybe he is one of us? The Phantom Lurker? > > I was going to write to him and the guy who wrote the article, but > thought > better of it. We reap what we sow. It's not the first time I've had > quotation remarks a

[LUTE] Re: Sigh No More Ladies

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Jones-RR
I've just had an email from Gerald Place, who is the tenor who sings Sigh No More Ladies on the new Naxos CD of music from Shakespeare. The version they sing is actually Beauty Sat Bathing by Robert Jones from Book III Ultima Vale, but the words of Sigh No More fit perfectly. I'm putting "arr. G

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Kohut... ? Could he be a misspelt reincarnation of Kohaut ? ;-))) Jean-Marie === 16-04-2008 23:28:48 === >This page left me speechless: >http://www.kiltmagazine.com/KiltMagMusic0305.html - does anyone know this >guy? He even 'quotes' me - I said no such thing. And it's good to have >conf

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Rob MacKillop
Just a thought - maybe he is one of us? The Phantom Lurker? I was going to write to him and the guy who wrote the article, but thought better of it. We reap what we sow. It's not the first time I've had quotation remarks around comments I never made. Seems to be the way reporters work. Nothing

[LUTE] Re: Sigh No More Ladies

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Wheeler
Another possibility is to use a ballad tune. Ross w. Duffin in his excelllant "Shakespeare's Somgbook" suggested a number of tunes that would fit the text, including Lusty Gallant and Rogero, both of which fit very well. All the best Mark -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Peter Jones-RR

[LUTE] Re: Aarrrgghhhh!!!

2008-04-17 Thread Ron Fletcher
The problem being, this garbage gets recycled! BTW To a player, maybe long-neck lutes continuo (into infinity)! BTW 2 The 'Continuo' link leads to a French language Lycos-page. Sorry to disappoint you guys... Whatever it had has been removed. Ron (UK) Steve Kenyon wrote... There's more garbage

[LUTE] Re: Sigh No More Ladies

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Jones-RR
Dear Matteo, The director of the play that I am meant to be playing for has heard the Naxos CD and wants that version of the song. I couldn't find it either in any of Robert Jones's printed books and presumed that it was in a MS source, which is why I contacted the list in the hope that someone