[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Guitar Tuning/Stringing

2018-06-07 Thread Tristan von Neumann
Thank you! This should make the decision easy. Am 07.06.2018 um 19:19 schrieb Sean Smith: Just to add, of the two deRippe fantasies, one of them uses a 4th course that's dropped one whole tone. You see this tuning from time to time in other pieces but it doesn't need a string

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Guitar Tuning/Stringing

2018-06-07 Thread Sean Smith
Just to add, of the two deRippe fantasies, one of them uses a 4th course that's dropped one whole tone. You see this tuning from time to time in other pieces but it doesn't need a string change. s On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Sean Smith <[1]lutesm...@gmail.com> wrote:

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Guitar Tuning/Stringing

2018-06-07 Thread Sean Smith
Hi Tristan, Nobody's written yet so I'll have a go. Like most lute objects the ren. guitar has a top string tuned as high and as comfortably as possible. For a 55cm length that translates to an A (415, 450 or nearby). I use the same diameter schedule as the top 4 courses on

[LUTE] Renaissance Guitar Tuning/Stringing

2018-06-07 Thread Tristan von Neumann
Hi Lustists with Ren-Guitar! How would you string a Renaissance Guitar diameter-wise, let's say 55 cm, what are the most common tunings in Morlaye and Le Roy? (I'd love to play the Albert fantasies too). I see the "middle of a 6 course lute" is one possibility, what are others? What string

[LUTE] Re: Georg Gebel

2018-06-07 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Dear Monica, Gzregorz, and all, here is what I wrote about Gebel in JSLA 2012 ("An Unknown Lute Piece in a Keyboard Manuscript with Works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"). Biography and style point strongly towards Gebel the younger. There is also a lute obbligato in his St. John passion "Hier

[LUTE] Re: Georg Gebel

2018-06-07 Thread Grzegorz Joachimiak
Dear Monica, here you will find some answers for yor questions: [1]https://www.academia.edu/5072002/Tombeau_and_Lamento_in_t he_Lute_Music_in_Silesia_of_17th_and_18th_centuries_Tombeau_i_lamento_w _muzyce_lutniowej_na_%C5%9Al%C4%85sku_XVII_i_XVIII_wieku Sorry for my absence

[LUTE] Georg Gebel

2018-06-07 Thread mjlh...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Another query about tombeaux. Do we know which Georg Gebel wrote the Tombeau de Madame J? There seem to be two, father and son. Both alive an adults in 1738. Cheers Monica To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html