[LUTE] Re: Lutes and social classes historically.

2012-07-24 Thread Gary Digman
Tobias Hume was not a member of the aristocracy. He was a mercenary soldier and died penniless in a home for the destitute. At one point he petitioned parliament for a pension complaining that he had been reduced to eating weeds to stay alive. I believe the ancestors of the violin family were

[LUTE] Re: Lutes and social classes historically.

2012-07-24 Thread Monica Hall
I think class structure was different during the 16th and 17th centuries and indeed changed a lot during this period. There was the nobility, and a small class of artisans - i.e. people with a skill of some sort. The mass of the population were peasants with varying degrees of literacy tied

[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble

2012-07-24 Thread Taco Walstra
On 07/23/2012 05:04 PM, Anton Höger wrote: Ok, I wrote that IMSLP always check the uploads and need at least one day. Because I often make a transcription for guitar too, it seems that IMSLP cannot handle with the same file name. But sorry if you feel that my more hundreds of Intavolations

[LUTE] Re: Feeds and dumps

2012-07-24 Thread Alain
Hi Anton, Taco, and all, RSS feeds have been an elegant and non-intrusive way for consumers to keep abreast of newly published documents for some time now. Here is an example: http://musickshandmade.com/lute/collections/feed.rss. If you follow that link you will see a link to a transcription of

[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble

2012-07-24 Thread Bruno Fournier
Anton, A I think the work you do is marvelous and a great teaching tool.A Too much music in this world and not enough time to assimilate it all.A With your intabulations it allows players of different levels to play together. A BTW, have you ever thought of doing

[LUTE] Re: Lute Ensemble

2012-07-24 Thread Rockford Mjos
I am also very appreciative of Anton's efforts and generosity! (Thank you, Anton!) I like that Anton notifies this list of recent uploads and changes. It helps to keep me up-to-date with Anton's postings (no small task!). This list doesn't seem, to me, overburdened by this sort of