[BAROQUE-LUTE] Balcarres

2011-11-04 Thread Rob MacKillop
One week on and there are twenty pieces from the Balcarres manuscript to listen to: [1]http://scottishlute.com/balcarres/ I'm pleased to announce that Glasgow University has agreed to house the wav files for posterity, and for use by students and staff. This is exactly what I

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Angelique music?

2011-11-04 Thread wikla
Thanks Rock M.! I try to find your Kremberg example in Vihuela Ning. I don't know if I can get in there. What I had in mind is the Tree edition: - MANUSCRIPT SCHWERIN 640 Music for Angélique, transposed for Baroque Lute by Michael Treder

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Angelique music?

2011-11-04 Thread Mathias Rösel
See http://www.accordsnouveaux.ch/de/Instrumente/Angelique/Angelique.html Scroll down until Musikquellen (musical sources), 1. Prints, 2. Manuscripts. There are two editions that I'm aware of, with music from these sources in staff notation for the guitar: 1. Adalbert Quadt (ed.):

[LUTE] Contact for Juan Carlos de Mulder

2011-11-04 Thread Edward C. Yong
Hi Chaps! Can anyone put me in touch with Juan Carlos de Mulder? His group El Ayre Español is coming thru Singapore next weekend and I'd like to get a lesson with him. I've emailed El Ayre Español at the email listed on their website but had no response, possibly because I emailed in

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente To those of you who were discussing this - I had the following reply from Wilfred which I think clarifies pretty well what he means in the context of the Bach piece.. The use of diatessaron and diapente in this context relates to the

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread Rob MacKillop
So he put it in D because he thinks it sounds better. Rob www.robmackillop.net On 4 Nov 2011, at 19:14, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente To those of you who were discussing this - I had the following reply from Wilfred which I

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread Monica Hall
In a nutshell - yes. It lies more conveniently on the instrument. Monica - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop robmackil...@gmail.com To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re:

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread William Samson
Ah! The gift of brevity! Wasn't it Pascal who wrote Sorry this letter is so long - I didn't have time to make it shorter. Bill From: Rob MacKillop robmackil...@gmail.com To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011,

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread Ron Andrico
Not Pascal but good old George Bernard Shaw, who also reviewed concerts with a c ertain measure of wit. RA Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:29:40 + To: robmackil...@gmail.com; mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk CC: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu From: willsam...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [LUTE] Re:

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread howard posner
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, William Samson wrote: Wasn't it Pascal who wrote Sorry this letter is so long - I didn't have time to make it shorter. Reverend fathers, my letters were not wont either to be so prolix, or to follow so closely on one another. Want of time must plead my excuse

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Angelique music?

2011-11-04 Thread Rockford Mjos
You did ask for _any_ music... There is one example of Angelique music in my Kremberg edition on my Early Guitar and Vihuela Ning page. Page 29 of the PDF. Krembergs tuning chart shows 16 (if I've counted correctly), but the music for the sample piece uses (only) 13. Have fun with your

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread William Samson
So GBS was either independently original, or shamelessly nicked Pascal's quote. Here are two versions from the web: I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no

[LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente

2011-11-04 Thread howard posner
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Ron Andrico wrote: Not Pascal but good old George Bernard Shaw, who also reviewed concerts with a certain measure of wit. I've seen it attributed to Shaw, Mark Twain and Oliver Wendell Holmes, not very specifically or reliably. The Provincial Letters were a