[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: le Tocsein de Gautier

2008-12-31 Thread Anthony Hind
Having just discussed the tempo of La Cascade, with a friend who argued that it should not be too slow or you could lose the 'mimetic' cascading effect, I rather supposed le tocsein, as a gigue, might contain a mimetic rhythmic element. However, I just had a message from Jean-Daniel

[LUTE] Re: Messiah

2008-12-31 Thread David Tayler
hey ray you have to have keyboard, but if you really don't, try to find an organ realization so you can quickly figure out the chords. Look for harmony changes in the middle of the recits when the bass is not moving--they are often dominant chords but can be other things as well. It is not an

[LUTE] 12/31/2008

2008-12-31 Thread Roman Turovsky
- Happy New Year to all Lutefolk! http://www.torban.org/ruthenicae/images/236.mp3 http://www.torban.org/ruthenicae/audio/236.mp3 RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Happy New Year from Dalza - 500 today

2008-12-31 Thread Martin Shepherd
Dear All, The new piece of the month is the last in Dalza's book, published on the last day of December 1508: www.luteshop.co.uk/month/pieceofthemonth.htm Happy New Year to All, Martin To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: 12/31/2008

2008-12-31 Thread Stuart Walsh
Roman Turovsky wrote: - Happy New Year to all Lutefolk! http://www.torban.org/ruthenicae/images/236.mp3 (.pdf rather than .mp3) http://www.torban.org/ruthenicae/audio/236.mp3 RT To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Happy New Year from Dalza - 500 today

2008-12-31 Thread Sean Smith
I snuck in a couple of last-minuters just in case anyone puts up their D-disco ball. s On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:16 AM, G. Crona wrote: Thanks Martin! At lest YOU remembered. Happy New 2009 G. To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Happy New Year from Dalza - 500 today

2008-12-31 Thread Sean Smith
The linkydo: http://vimeo.com/2678001 Sean On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:16 AM, G. Crona wrote: Thanks Martin! At lest YOU remembered. Happy New 2009 G. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Happy New Year from Dalza - 500 today

2008-12-31 Thread Sean Smith
Thanks. Standard issue iSight. Sean On Dec 31, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: nice, and well shot. rt - Original Message - From: Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:38 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Happy New Year

[LUTE] David Mitchell?

2008-12-31 Thread Nancy Carlin
Does anyone know how to contact David Mitchell - he co-authored some articles with Diana Poulton back in the early 1970s. Nancy Carlin Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site -

[LUTE] Re: Vallet - thumb or middle finger?

2008-12-31 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Hello Susanne From the foreword of the second edition Amsterdam 1618 of the Secretum (here Paradisus): s'il y a deux petits traitz ainsi, c'est du second, s'il n'y en a point, signifie du poulce... II = second finger (guitar: m) The same in nederlands is written in the first edition of 1615

[LUTE] Re: Vallet - thumb or middle finger?

2008-12-31 Thread Sean Smith
It's a notation to use the middle finger. The [ ] is the cipher used to signify two dots. NV was surrounded by 9 and 10 -course lutes by that time and many (most?) players would have been using thumb-out for the larger bridged lutes. The 10-c doesn't make the thumb-under of older players

[LUTE] OT: Dalza's Lament

2008-12-31 Thread Cinque Cento
A lutanist by the name Dalza got tired of just playing salsa he saw the New Year would just bring more fear and went to shoot rockets in Gaza An oud player from Palestine was minding his own thing just fine but in came the Jew his homeland he blew so now he is planting a mine A luter from

[LUTE] Re: OT: Dalza's Lament

2008-12-31 Thread Roman Turovsky
We be the Muslims three, newly arrived to the Western Country: ekskuseh mooah, zhevoozomprih, got no music or art, but packed with TNT! RT - Original Message - From: Cinque Cento cinquece...@musician.org To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:20 PM Subject:

[LUTE] Re: Vallet - thumb or middle finger?

2008-12-31 Thread Susanne Herre
Very interesting! Thank you, Andreas and Sean! Susanne - Original Message - From: Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vallet - thumb or middle finger? It's a notation to use the middle

[LUTE] Re: le Tocsein de Gautier

2008-12-31 Thread damian dlugolecki
Yes, but like the scene created in real life, there are many things going on, of which the tocsein is but one. So the fact that the recurring 'gongs' don't occur on accented beats doesn't mean anything. It's all part of the structured chaos of the scene of say, a fire, where people are running