[LUTE] Re: Saldivar Codex 4 - transcription?

2008-05-08 Thread Monica Hall
Only Craig Russell's work has a staff notation transcription. Lorimer's is just a facsimile of the tablature. Monica - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vihuela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:36 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Saldivar Codex 4 -

[LUTE] Re: Notating the tab of ms. 1511b ?

2008-05-08 Thread wikla
G. wrote: obvious mistake in tablature. He must have had problems with his tablature program. Does not look like Fronimo or Django. Well, in that case it is not good for the thesis, because It happens throughout the transcriptions... Arto To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Oxford today

2008-05-08 Thread Peter Jones-RR
If you can hang on until Sunday, Jakob Lindberg is doing a concert at the Holywell Music Room on his wonderful 1590 Sextus Rauwolff Lute of mainly Dowland. See http://www.musicamano.com/ for more details of his lute and the programme... -Original Message- From: Liutista [mailto:[EMAIL

[LUTE] Re: Oxford today

2008-05-08 Thread Liutista
Thanks. Unfortunatly on Sunday I'll be already back to Italy. Cheers Peter Jones-RR ha scritto: If you can hang on until Sunday, Jakob Lindberg is doing a concert at the Holywell Music Room on his wonderful 1590 Sextus Rauwolff Lute of mainly Dowland. See http://www.musicamano.com/ for more

[LUTE] Re: Notating the tab of ms. 1511b ?

2008-05-08 Thread Ron Andrico
To All: Since we are carping about the music included in this thesis, the 'diplomatic facsimile' tablature, or tablature with all the mistakes as in the original, is not really useful to lutenists, that is if the intention is future commercial publication. In such cases, it is better to

[LUTE] Frets

2008-05-08 Thread Bruno Correia
Dear Lutists, Returning to the issue of frets, are all the fret-gut availlable today of the same quality? I'm probably buying from Aquila (as I have been doing lately) but they wear out very fast. Also, for an 8 course instrument in g, what would be the avarage gauge for the first fret? I use 1

[LUTE] Oxford today

2008-05-08 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Giuliano, I have consulted various websites on line, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anything of early music interest happening this evening in Oxford. It's a pity you only have this evening, because they often have early music concerts there. I guess the alternative is to find a

[LUTE] Re: machete

2008-05-08 Thread Rob MacKillop
Well, you could start by translating every Portuguese guitar book or manuscript from the 17th to 19th centuries...Too much to ask? Oh well... Seriously, Bruno, I appreciate your offer, and if I come across something I need translated, I'll get in touch. Many thanks. Rob 2008/5/8 Bruno Correia

[LUTE] Re: machete

2008-05-08 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: [LUTE] Re: machete Well, you could start by translating every Portuguese guitar book or manuscript from the 17th to 19th centuries...Too much to ask? Oh well... Actually there isn't that much from the 17th century unless it is lurking unseen in Portuguese libraries. There

[LUTE] Left hand positioning

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel Ramey
Greetings All, I am a rare poster to this list, but I was practicing last night and found an interesting issue cropping up.I am a beginning lute player and most of the songs I have learned to this point have been out of the DeGroot Learning to play the lute book. This is the one that

[LUTE] Re: Left hand positioning

2008-05-08 Thread vance wood
If I read you correctly you should be using a bar with the index finger when the stops are on the same fret. You might want to pick up a copy of Variety of Lute Lessons, a facsimile edition of a Lute primer from the sixteenth Century, there is some information on both hands. - Original

[LUTE] Re: Notating the tab of ms. 1511b ?

2008-05-08 Thread demery
On Thu, May 8, 2008, Ron Andrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since we are carping about the music included in this thesis, the 'diplomatic facsimile' tablature, or tablature with all the mistakes as in the original, is not really useful to lutenists SOunds to me that this was intended as a

[LUTE] Re: Notating the tab of ms. 1511b ? (WAS: Lute dissertations online)

2008-05-08 Thread demery
On Thu, May 8, 2008, Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I do not have the facsimile of the original, and I could not find any explanation of this in the thesis. It is an application of the rules of 'perfection' as was common in renaissance mensural notation. Morley writes about this, it is

[LUTE] Re: Left hand positioning

2008-05-08 Thread Rob MacKillop
Daniel, It would be worthwhile getting a teacher to guide you through these early stages, but I appreciate that there might not be any teachers in your area. In that case you will have to start analysing the natural movements of each hand very carefully, because if you try to ask the hand to do