[LUTE] String tension

2010-03-24 Thread Nedmast2
In working my way through David Talyer's graduate thesis on Dowland (great fun) I came across the statement regarding Dowland's stringing (p.82): "The very highest string, tuned as high as it could stand (modern players, incidentally tend to make do with one half to two thirds this t

[LUTE] Re: String tension

2010-03-24 Thread howard posner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:36 AM, nedma...@aol.com wrote: > In working my way through David Talyer's graduate thesis on Dowland > (great fun) I came across the statement regarding Dowland's stringing > (p.82): "The very highest string, tuned as high as it could stand > (modern players, inciden

[LUTE] Re: String tension

2010-03-24 Thread Nedmast2
Thanks, Howard. These directions do leave a lot to one's interpretation. Ned -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] John Danyel

2010-03-24 Thread Ariel Abramovich
Dear friends, is there any available facsimilar edition of John Danyel lute songs? I'm willing to buy it, if so. Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Ariel. __ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by

[LUTE] Re: John Danyel

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Browne
On 24/03/10 19:51, Ariel Abramovich wrote: Dear friends, is there any available facsimilar edition of John Danyel lute songs? I'm willing to buy it, if so. Thanks in advance for any advice! Best, Ariel.

[LUTE] Informal names of mss. mapped to "official" names

2010-03-24 Thread wikla
Dear lutenists, as we all know, there are quite a few manuscripts of lute music there... And there are several names to unique mss., too. So does our collective wisdom know any source that connects the informal names to the best(?) names of those mss.? For ex. I do very clearly know what is "Sai

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Informal names of mss. mapped to "official" names

2010-03-24 Thread wikla
Just in case there are b-lutters not reading the "main" list: Original Message Subject: [LUTE] Informal names of mss. mapped to "official" names Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:20:35 +0200 From: wikla To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Dear lutenists, as we all know, there are quite a few ma

[LUTE] Re: [english 99%] judenkunig 1523 facsimile

2010-03-24 Thread Karl L. Eggert
Dear Wolfgang, Thank you for the facsimile links! Karl -- From: "wolfgang wiehe" Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:20 PM To: Subject: [english 99%] [LUTE] judenkunig 1523 facsimile and here a next digitalisat: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/

[LUTE] Re: String tension

2010-03-24 Thread David Tayler
I don't know if I would write the same thing today, hopefully something better, but it would probably be pretty close. I think the conclusion, that it all gets softer as you head for the bass, is right. But maybe they had special strings that evened it out a bit, but the top string would have ha

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti - date of Allemande....

2010-03-24 Thread Mjos & Larson
Massimo Moscardo has two of his "Bartolotti" edition pieces from A-Wn 17706 on YouTube. Prelude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hVNmvtDuDc Allemande http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOG9N9VQ8kQ The same Allemande performed by RĂ©mi Cassaigne (also with what I believe is the wrong first note) ht

[LUTE] Re: John Danyel

2010-03-24 Thread Stephan Olbertz
The (English) lute society published volume one of his complete works, the solo works edited by Martin Shepherd, so maybe there is volume two in the pipeline. Regards, Stephan Am 24.03.2010, 20:51 Uhr, schrieb Ariel Abramovich : Dear friends, is there any available facsimilar edi