[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread jslute
Dear All, I'd like to see a baroque lute arrangement of Frank Zappa's "Twenty Small Cigars." I'd play that. Jim Stimson Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Arto Wikla Date: 3/16/18 6:36 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Lute@cs.

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread spiffys84121
I will play any music on lutes, if it works for that lute. I believe in using the right tool for the job-- unlike guitarists and pianists who endeavor to build the whole house with just a hammer. My question-- do most lute players only specialize in one repertoire? I play any lute m

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Arto Wikla
Hi dear lutenist friends I've played many unorthodox lute thingies to the YouTube, oftenmost very badly. ;-) Here are links to some of them: * Pietre Rotolanti: Dipingi nera quella porta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuyf4uha8fs * Something very different: short teenage memory ... ;-) h

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Alain Veylit
Good quote from a great movie, Christopher! A lutenist walks into a bar down South and gets plenty of empty beer bottles thrown at him... They did not like his modernist bend on the passomezzo On 03/16/2018 01:51 PM, Christopher Wilke wrote: Actually, I think the quote is: "We got

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Leonard Williams
I, myself, was attracted to the lute, via recorders and other early instruments, because I like playing renaissance music. What better way to enjoy it than on the instruments for which it was written? If I were an instructor, I would probably be more inclined to teach guitarist

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Christopher Wilke
Actually, I think the quote is: "We got both kinds [of music]: Country AND Western" - the bartender in The Blues Brothers. ;-) Speaking personally, I see myself as an artist first, a musician second and an instrumentalist (on various instruments including lute) third. There's a

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread guy_and_liz Smith
This, perhaps: Louis Armstrong - "There is two kinds of music, the good & the bad. I play the good kind." -- Personally, I'm a purist to the extent that I play only Ren music on the lute or sackbut. I play modern music (symphonic band and jazz) on a modern trombone. Works for me, but one of the

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread John Mardinly
Beautiful! Thank you. A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya On Mar 16, 2018, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Shoskes <[1]kidneykut...@gmail.com> wrote: Since you asked: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3kCnbnSnc On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:

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2018-03-16 Thread Alain Veylit
Trick question: When Paul O'Dette plays an arrangement of a ragtime on lutes, it that early music or modern music? I am reminded of a quote by a jazz player (whose name escapes me now): there are only two kinds of music, the good one and the other one. Which one should we play on which instrum

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2018-03-16 Thread Valery SAUVAGE
> > "So does anyone play contemporary music on the vihuela?" So do I (and on the lute too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7ZWqvHtfA (and I compose too but on the ukulele) V. > Message du 16/03/18 20:38 > De : "Daniel Shoskes" > A : "John Mardinly" >

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Daniel Shoskes
Since you asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3kCnbnSnc > On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:09 PM, John Mardinly wrote: > > So does anyone play contemporary music on the vihuela? > > A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. > The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters > Francisco Goya > > > >> On Mar 16, 2018, at

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2018-03-16 Thread Stephan Olbertz
I agree, however I surprised myself recently when I felll in love with Dosia McKay's Parting for baroque lute. Stephan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von mathias.roe...@t-online.de Gesendet: Freitag, 16. März 2018 19:2

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread mathias.roe...@t-online.de
Everybody is free to do with their lutes, or should be so, what they like best. Gilbert's initial observation was, though, that some 90% of this tiny community don't seem to be interested in newly composed music for the lute. And I take it that he wasn't referring to the lute mailing

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread John Mardinly
So does anyone play contemporary music on the vihuela? A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya > On Mar 16, 2018, at 10:01 AM, Wayne wrote: > > One thing that has not been mentioned is that we have choices - we all, or > most of us, or some of us, c

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2018-03-16 Thread Mark Seifert
Dear Wayne, Due to a desire to play Loud lute music, I bought a 7-steel string electric guitar and another 8-steel string electric guitar partly because they were so dirt cheap compared to lutes, which are simply not available at the local Guitar Center. After I learned they sel

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2018-03-16 Thread Wayne
One thing that has not been mentioned is that we have choices - we all, or most of us, or some of us, can choose to play a certain part of our repertoire on our Les Paul/Marshall, or our classical guitar, or our romantic guitar, or our bandora, or ukulele or even saxophone or synth in some cases

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2018-03-16 Thread Dan Winheld
On 3/16/2018 9:26 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: If there were such a person - who would only, ever,  play centuries' old music would it be enough to say that this choice was the harmless choice of a free being? Yes indeed. It would be quite enough! Most of my students over the years have been just

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread WALSH STUART
If it seems odd to want to play modern music on a lute it is surely odder to only play a lute and only ever to play  music that was composed centuries ago. Perhaps no one is odd enough for that! If there were such a person - who would only, ever,  play centuries' old music (however gem-laden i

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-16 Thread Rainer
Niedersachs. Staatsarchiv Aurich, Sign.: Rep. 241 MSC, Nr. E 101 contains a song to the tune of "Est ce Mars" that begins "Ehrlich, freundlich, und schön dabei" See E. Friedländer, Eine Liederhandschrift des k. Staats-Archivs zu Aurich aus dem Anfange des 17. Jahrhunderts, in: Monatshefte für

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-16 Thread Joachim Lüdtke
Dear Rainer, I had a look a the microfilm of the source (Leipzig II.6.15) yesterday. The initial s (it's the round, not the long form) is a bit, well, one of its own, but still it is an s. I read the word as "schein" = a dialect form of schoen. Best Joachim -Original-Nachricht- Betr

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-16 Thread Rainer
In his very interesting article about "Est ce mars" Eberhard Nehlsen reads "Freundlich, höflich, schön daneben". He may have seen the original or drawn the title form an article by Tappert published in 1892 [sic!]. Rainer On 12.03.2018 16:48, jo.lued...@t-online.de wrote: Well, also

[LUTE] Re: Goffriller

2018-03-16 Thread Matthew Daillie
On 16/03/2018 04:39, Edward Martin wrote: Thanks Daniel. Yes, I have that old LP and also the old recording of LeRoy and Paladin he did on that Goffriller copy. Someone recently told me that Nico van der Waals is alive, living with a German Lutenist. Since Nico has never used computers, I sh

[LUTE] 13 course Baroque lute for sale

2018-03-16 Thread Anton Birula
Dear Friends we are selling a nice baroque lute by Martin de Witte. 69/76 cm stringlength please contact us for more information The instrument is strung with NYLGUT and Aquila DE type Wound basses for more natural focused sound in the bass register. Below are links to the Demo and

[LUTE] Re: Some questions

2018-03-16 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Jurgen, A 1986 (modern?) paraphrase of a Wolf song for 13 course Dm lute is found on the Lute Society site. Look under Lute Society free downloads. Cut and paste these into your browser [1]http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/free-downloads [2]http://www.lutesociety.org/vanill

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2018-03-16 Thread Albert Reyerman
the publication is 4 pieces fo archlute by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie arranged and intabulated by Jonathan Rubin available from TREE  EDITION in their tree today series of contemporary lute music TREE EDITION Albert Reyerman Finkenberg 89 23558 Luebeck Germany albertreyer...@kabelmail.de w

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2018-03-16 Thread Jurgen Frenz
There are many great songs by Hugo Wolf - the piano score would need to be reduced in ambitus to fit in the range of any lute. Johann Kaspar Mertz is the only "real" guitar composer of the romantic period AND often (not all of it) is fairly hard to play. What is even more interesting about Mer

[LUTE] Re: Goffriller

2018-03-16 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Of course I meant “Nico” not Nice !!! Sorry ! And the German lutenist Nico is living with is Sigrun Richter. I visited them in Italy last summer and played a duet concert there with Sigrun. They are very nice people! Best, Jean-Marie > Le 16 mars 2018 à 08:23, Jean-Marie Poirier a écrit : > >

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2018-03-16 Thread Gilbert Isbin
Satie arranged for the lute by G. Isbin Gnossienne 1, 2 and 3, Elegie, Marche de Cocagne [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l1HziUDIIM&list=PLoNMcNOgUKFkmXdv7V tYvR25wKBfmBOdg 3 Nick Drake Songs arranged for the lute by G. Isbin [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0nIQ63JJw

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2018-03-16 Thread David van Ooijen
Has been done. There's a cd with satie on lute. David On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 03:24, Dan Winheld <[1]dwinh...@lmi.net> wrote: "Claude Debussy & Erik Satie - 4 Pieces for Lute" Arranged and Intabulated by Jonathan Rubin Tree-Edition, Munchen - Tablature Copied by Albert Reyma

[LUTE] Re: Goffriller

2018-03-16 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Yes Nice is alive and well. He is presently making a lute for me which I should receive in October... 8 course after Tieffenbrucker (from a private collection in London). All the best, Jean-Marie > Le 16 mars 2018 à 04:39, Edward Martin a écrit : > > Thanks Daniel. > > Yes, I have that old L