The earliest dompe that I know of is "My Lady Carey's Dompe," an English
keyboard piece from around 1530 (longtime favourite of mine). Does
anyone know of anything else?
The Affect of these pieces (Dumps, spelled how you will, and Downs) is
"melancholic," but the meaning of that word has chan
Thanks, all, for keeping this dialog going. It's a curious subject of
music history and one that I feel lutenists (Elizabethan, anyway) need
to explore.
The formal evidence certainly points to a usage that conforms to
Shakespeare's example and it points to a tradition that types and
pie
A phoentician’s musings :
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One point of view (even present in the OED) based on data in the
literature, rather than the surviving music, has it that the music labelled as
“dumps ” could be closely associated with the mood “down in the dumps ”, (the
“dumps” OED, "a fit of melancholy an
Ballo Sarmatoruteno IV -
http://torban.org/balli/images/BSR4.mp3
http://torban.org/balli/images/BSR4.pdf
Enjoy.
RT
- Original Message -
From: "Roman Turovsky"
To: "lutenet"
Cc:
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:06 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Cantio SR 83
http://torban.org/sarmatoruthenica
Dear Leonard and David,
John Robinson explains the origin of Chow Bent in footnote 133 on page
24 of the Introduction to the Lute Society facsimile of Dd.2.11, for
which Rainer aus dem Spring is thanked in the Acknowledgements on page
8.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
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Fr
Hi All,
I assume by "forwarding" David means pushing the string towards the
bridge with the stopping finger to flatten it (also possible to pull it
in the other direction to sharpen it).
I do both, sometimes - much easier with Nylgut and gut, where the finger
contact with the string is quite g
