[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Weiss for 11c

2011-07-29 Thread Christopher Pearcy
Thank you to everybody who gave suggestions. That was really helpful. I shall be buying the UK Lute Soc 6 Sonatas and the Rohrau ms. Best wishes Chris -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo Strings...

2011-07-29 Thread Taco Walstra
On 07/29/2011 01:01 AM, Hector wrote: Dear all, A quick question. Any experience with the New Nylgut NNG and NGE as basses on a 85cm theorbo? I'm just thinking of stinging the short neck all with Nylgut. Currently I have Nylgut in the a-e-b-g and d (from the top), and I just wonder if

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo Strings...

2011-07-29 Thread Martin Shepherd
Hi Hector, Good to meet you again at Gijon - I hope you had a pleasant trip home. You could also try Savarez KF strings. They're more dense than gut, so you would need KF95A for the 6th course and KF105A for the 7th. They work well on renaissance lute, should work fine on 85cm! Best

[LUTE] Re: (1 of 2) Judentanz (was) Re: What's the point to 'historical sound'

2011-07-29 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Dear Arthur, Thanks very much for your reply! And sorry for the corrections - the Trafficante system is neither made for splitted octave strings nor for octave transpositions... and I realized my mistake too late... Thank you very much for your comments. I have a vague recollection that

[LUTE] Re: The Lute In Europe 2

2011-07-29 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Hello! Joachim Lüdtke and me wrote the book The Lute in Europe 2 and after some mails from this list with questions we like to give some informations - specially for the owner of the first book, too. The first 120 page book The Lute in Europe. A History to Delight was more or less focussed

[LUTE] Christes Crosse

2011-07-29 Thread Edward Mast
Does anyone here know if Christes Crosse in early notation is available? I have it in Thomas Morley's A Plain Easy Introduction to Practical Music, but it would require much work to get it into a performance format from there (not so difficult for the modern notation example). -Ned To

[LUTE] Saltarello secondo della Duchessa and La Pistrinara

2011-07-29 Thread Sean Smith
I've been spending a little time in the Intabulatura di Lauto del [FdM] et PPBorrono, Libro secondo, 1546, Venice and I'm curious about the first suite. La Duchessa is the 2nd of 3 saltarellos that follow La Borroncina (a self reference to PPB? eg, Il Gorzanis) and also appears in the

[LUTE] Re: Saltarello secondo della Duchessa and La Pistrinara

2011-07-29 Thread Ron Andrico
Hi, Sean - Donna here, with my sixty four cents' worth. According to the 1611 Florio's, a 'pistrina' is a bake-house or mill, and a 'pistrinaro' is a miller, or baker. 'Pistrinara' doesn't merit a mention, but you can probably figure it out. Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:57:26 -0700

[LUTE] Re: Saltarello secondo della Duchessa and La Pistrinara

2011-07-29 Thread Sean Smith
Thanks, Donna. It hadn't come up in the translate things and had to make sure s On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Ron Andrico wrote: Hi, Sean - Donna here, with my sixty four cents' worth. According to the 1611 Florio's, a 'pistrina' is a bake-house or mill, and a 'pistrinaro' is a