[LUTE] Where to buy Serdoura's Baroque Lute method book.

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Ward
Can anyone recommend a place to buy the book "Method for the Baroque Lute" by Miguel Serdoura? I've found it at www.sheetmusicplus.com www.utorpheus.com www.di-arezzo.co.uk but I've no experience with any of these sellers, and in particular I'm worried about possible troubles in buying intern

[LUTE] Re: Where to buy Serdoura's Baroque Lute method book.

2010-11-16 Thread Edward Mast
Of these three, my only dealings have been with Utorpheus, from whom I bought the Andrea Damiani lute method book. My experience was positive. When my copy arrived and had some missing pages - non printed - they immediately sent me another copy without requesting return of the defective copy.

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Ward
The number of courses depends on the type of lute (renaissance, baroque, etc), the historical period in question, and the repertoire you want to play. I've seen lutes from 6 to 13 courses. In general, the number of courses increased as the decades and centuries rolled by. If you visit the webs

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Daniel Winheld
For what instrument and purpose, exactly? >Is 10 the maximum number of courses? > >Thx, >E.C. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread A. J. Ness
The Thysius Lute Manuscript has printed seven-line tablature staves. Reviewed in the current JLSA. I have a vague recollection of others with seven lines, but can't recall which ones. Fuhrmann? - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" To: "echapin" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 16

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Denys Stephens
Am I right in thinking you are asking about notating diapasons in Abctab2ps? It's a while since I used that system, but it's true that the user guide doesn't refer to any more than 10 courses. >From a quick attempt to edit the Kapsberger piece in the examples that come with the program I can't get

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread demery
> Is 10 the maximum number of courses? I would hope not, but it may be that the code was devised to support renaissance repetoire, ornaments and scordatura get involved for later material. See the wiki article for links to the authors email (Christopher Dalitz & Michael Methfessel) The source c

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread demery
> Is 10 the maximum number of courses? I just downloaded it and am reading the documentatino. No limit is specified, but the examples show 10, and the rest of the doc implies renaissance lutes, so I suspect the code is limited to 10 courses. I have not delved deeply enough to know if it is possi

[LUTE] Capirola

2010-11-16 Thread Leonard Williams
I recently wrote to the Newberry Library in Chicago, inquiring about the possibility of their producing a full color Capirola facsimile at any time. Here's the answer (though there is some uncertainty about the color aspect): Dear Mr. Williams, As it happens, the entire Capirola manuscri

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Leonard Williams
The manual for abctab2ps gives this: 'Bourdon strings or "diapasons" are written in braces "{}". You can use both the ledger line notation for courses 7 to 10 and the number notation; eg. "{,,,a}" and "{10}" both mean the tenth course, where the first notation results in an "a" with three ledger l

[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Danny Chapman
On 16 November 2010 21:21, wrote: >> Is 10 the maximum number of courses? > > I just downloaded it and am reading the documentatino. I just downloaded it and am reading the source :) It seems that the source code defines the specific clefs and there's no way to use anything that hasn't been wri

[LUTE] Re: abc lute tab

2010-11-16 Thread echapin
" Am I right in thinking you are asking about notating diapasons in Abctab2ps? It's a while since I used that system, but it's true that the user guide doesn't refer to any more than 10 courses. >From a quick attempt to edit the Kapsberger piece in the examples that come with the program I can't g

[LUTE] Re: abc lute tab

2010-11-16 Thread Markus Lutz
As far as I know, you can use up to 14 courses, as you can see in: http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/userguide/node8.html#SECTION00088000 It's about tablature fonts: 68-71 (ASCII 'D'-'G') Numbers '4'-'7' for the french habit of numbering bourdons 72-78 (ASCII 'H'-'N') Numbers