[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-28 Thread howard posner
On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Monica Hall wrote: > I think you are being disingenious. What Satoh actually says is > "This is all my imagination and conjecture, based on the few documents > concerning De Visee's life". > > How is the reader supposed to know what is based on these few documen

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-28 Thread Monica Hall
I think you are being disingenious. What Satoh actually says is "This is all my imagination and conjecture, based on the few documents concerning De Visee's life". How is the reader supposed to know what is based on these few documents and what is idle fantasy? Why suggest that De Visee w

[LUTE] C.F.A Pollet (arranger) Ariette from Anette et Lubin for cistre ou guitarre allemande (1770s)

2014-02-28 Thread WALSH STUART
The wire-strung cistre ou guitarre allemande (with lots of variations on the spelling of 'guitare') was popular in France in the 1770s and 1780s. It was tuned to (almost) an A mjor chord. This is from the 'opera-comique', Anette et Lubin: C'est la fille à Simonet https://www.youtube.com/watch

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-28 Thread David van Ooijen
His own words leave no doubt and are far from misleading: "This is all my imagination and conjecture [...] it was this imagination that drove me to perform the pieces ..." In other words, the story in the CD-booklet is about motivation, not about historical facts." 'nough said

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-28 Thread Monica Hall
I think it is you who cannot distinguish fact from fiction. The liner notes to Satoh's CD are a mishmash of known facts and pure fiction and it is far from obvious what is all his imagination and conjecture and what is actually true. Some people have certainly been mislead into thinking that i

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-28 Thread David van Ooijen
Monica wrote: >> In the liner notes to his recent CD Toyohiko Satoh claimed that De Visee was Portuguese and came from a small town called Viseu near Coimbra. This is pure fiction - there is no evidence at all that this was so. << Utterly, completely and absolutely OT. But