[LUTE] Pictures Haycock

2011-03-09 Thread Alfonso Marin
For those interested Here they go: http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/Haycock_1.jpg http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/Haycock_2.jpg http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/Haycock_3.jpg http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/Haycock_4.jpg http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/Haycock_5.jpg http://www.lutevoice.com/H

[LUTE] 7-course lute by Martin Haycock for sale

2011-03-09 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I am offering a wonderfully sounding seven-course version after the Georg Gerle lute at the Vienna Kunsthistorischesmuseum for sale. The instrument was finished in February 2010 and has a birds-eye maple back and an ebony veneered neck and pegbox. The pegs are made from a very hard

[LUTE] Christmas concert

2010-12-18 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear All, I would like to share with you some videos of a concert were Valeria and me performed some Spanish, German and English Christmas carols. I hope you enjoy them and help you get into the Christmas mood! Merry Christmas! This is the Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A835

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-05 Thread Alfonso Marin
; > Gary > > - Original Message ----- From: "Alfonso Marin" > To: "lutelist Net" > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:15 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov > > >> He indeed cashed in with Sting! ;) >> A. >> >> On Dec 5, 2010, a

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-05 Thread Alfonso Marin
e hype? > > G. > > - Original Message - From: "Alfonso Marin" > To: "lutelist Net" > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 1:45 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov > > >> I have the feeling that he uses music to create an image that fe

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-05 Thread Alfonso Marin
I have the feeling that he uses music to create an image that feeds with obviously huge ego. I do not buy it, not musically nor "lutenistically" and most of all artistically. On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > I find Edin's style totally dignified, > in partucular when compare

[LUTE] Six-course lute made by Francisco Hervás for sa le

2010-08-08 Thread Alfonso Marin
. It comes with a made-to-measure Manzano black case also in mint condition. 2850 € For more information contact Alfonso Marin at: i...@lutevoice.com +31206705218 The instrument can be tried in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Here you can see more high resolution pictures if the lute: http://www.lut

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Stuart, I am not the mandolin player. He is called Mauro Squillante and indeed he plays with a plectrum. I was playing the archlute (not in this aria of course) Greetings, Alfonso On May 28, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Stuart Walsh wrote: > Alfonso Marin wrote: >> Dear all, >> &

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
I forgot to mention that the name of the mandolin player is Mauro Squillante. Here is the video again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfpYO8_j5w On May 27, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote: > Stuart Walsh wrote: >>> >> >> >> I just can't imagine how you get a loud, full sound playing t

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, Talking about baroque mandolins: Last year I played Vivaldi's oratorio "Juditha Triumphans" with the "Venice Baroque Orchestra". There is an aria with a mandolin solo. The concert at the Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam was broadcasted live for the Dutch Television channel CULTURA an

[LUTE] Re: Larry Brown

2010-05-25 Thread Alfonso Marin
I have found a Larry K Brown in Facebook. The avatar picture is a guitar case with a cat inside. He might be the one. Here is his Facebook page. You can send him a message. http://www.facebook.com/people/Lawrence-K-Brown/1300043937 I hope it helps. Greetings, Alfonso On May 24, 2010, at 6:23 P

[LUTE] New HD videos

2010-03-20 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I have posted 3 new videos in full HD of a recent concert with my duo partner in occasion of the presentation of our new CD "Clear or Cloudy" In case you would like to watch them, here they are: Robert Johnson: Have you seen but a white lily grow?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgu

[LUTE] Problems listening to the music on the webpage

2009-11-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, Yesterday I sent you a link were it is possible to listen to a recent CD I have recorded with my duo partner. Someone has reported having problems listening to the music. The webpage is made on a Macintosh and I do not have access to a Windows PC at the moment. Did someone else had

[LUTE] New English lute-song CD

2009-11-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I would like to make you know that my CD with the soprano Valeria Mignaco called "Clear or Cloudy" has been finally released. It is our first commercial work together and it was recorded one and a half years ago for the Belgian label "Musica Ficta". We have created a restricted webp

[LUTE] Baroque Guitar for sale

2009-04-23 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear fellow lutenists, Just a quick note to make you know that I am selling my baroque guitar made by Sebastián Nuñez in 2005. I am progressively focusing on the renaissance repertoire and I don´t play baroque guitar anymore. I have prepared a webpage were you can have a look to some pictur

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-16 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Howard, What do you mean by TOY theorbo? Have you seen the pictures? Do you think Nico van der Waals will ever make a TOY instrument? Sorry. I don't get it. Greetings, Alfonso On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:18 PM, howard posner wrote: On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Alfonso Marin wrote

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-15 Thread Alfonso Marin
: On 2/13/2009, "Alfonso Marin" wrote: I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale. .. Selling price is 7900 . The instrument really looks very beautiful! But is this really the price level of today? 7800 euros for a quality theorbo? In that case I am a rich man! On

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
?disposition=download Greetings, Alfonso On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:20 AM, wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: On 2/13/2009, "Alfonso Marin" wrote: I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale. .. Selling price is 7900 . The instrument really looks very beautiful! But is this really

[LUTE] Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
, Alfonso Marin Ruysdaelkade 203 1072 AV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: + 31 20 6705218 e-mail: [2]i...@lutevoice.com [3]http://www.lutevoice.com [4]http://youtube.com/lutevoice -- References 1. http://www.theorbo.lutevoice.com/ 2. mailto:i...@lutevoice.com 3. http

[LUTE] Re: There is a traitor in our midst!

2009-01-17 Thread Alfonso Marin
Amazing¡¡ On Jan 17, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Rob MacKillop wrote: Please forgive me! [1]http://www.youtube.com/user/baroqueuke My first instrument - when I was eight years old...my life must be drawing full circle...and coming to an end!!! Hopefully not for a w

[LUTE] Coventry carol with falling snow

2008-12-20 Thread Alfonso Marin
This is a bit kitsch but I could not resist it: www.christmas.lutevoice.com/ Merry christmas! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Coventry carol & merry Christmas!

2008-12-18 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I have posted the "Coventry carol" as a Merry Christmas wish to all of you. It was recorded at a recent concert with my duo partner. I hope you enjoy it. Here it goes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAranBYmeN0&feature=channel_page&fmt=18 These are some other videos from the sa

[LUTE] Re: the grooviest video and audio tech

2008-10-22 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear David, Yes, I can confirm that the HF10 is a very good video camera indeed. The latest videos from my duo on vimeo are filmed with this little camera. The sound quality is quite decent. In this case the camera was a bit to far away from the stage and the sound is not as defined as I

[LUTE] New videos

2008-10-20 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear fellow lutenists, We have posted some more videos of a recent concert in collaboration with the baroque cellist Adrian Mantu at the "Music for Galway" festival in Ireland. There are two nice spanish songs, a song by T. Campion and a french air de cour by Pierre Guedron. As always, an

[LUTE] Tumiati

2008-07-05 Thread Alfonso Marin
this list, otherwise we will have to assume his culpability. Greetings, Alfonso Marin P.S.- As you can see this message is also forwarded to Tumiati's email address so that he will know what is going on and have the chance to defend himself. P.S.- Please. Peter, If you have al

[LUTE] Re: Recercare

2008-04-01 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear lutelist, I committed the mistake of replying to one of Igors's belligerent commentaries some days ago. He obiosly is trying (very uncunningly) to stir some negative emotions among us. Let us not follow his stupid game that has nothing to do with our mutual love for music and our be

[LUTE] Re: Igor(?) and Guiliani?

2008-03-23 Thread Alfonso Marin
On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:56 AM, igor . wrote: .even for an idiot like me ! You have said it all. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-30 Thread Alfonso Marin
ubject: [LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules > > Alfonso, you seem to have jumped the fence and joined the Rob McKillop > Subjectivity in Continuo Club. > On Sunday, Jul 29, 2007, at 09:27 America/Los_Angeles, Alfonso Marin > wrote: > >> Can you imagine a continuo r

[LUTE] Re: Paul O'Dette-Bach

2007-07-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
> just started a glass of wine, hence the mellow if not filosofical > mood Proost Alfonso On 29-jul-2007, at 18:42, LGS-Europe wrote: >> It's very hard just to enjoy something very beautifull. >> I think we should try... >> Why not? >> It's not so hard > > As with the continuo

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
The majority of people cannot differentiate between a good singer (and lutenist) singing Dowland and Sting. That is no excuse not to strive to make our best as musicians and try to render the music as good as we can. I give you a personal example. I have a lute-voice duo with a soprano since

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
The rules of early continuo practice are coming from renaissance counterpoint. At the very beginning of basso continuo, still in the XVI century, through-bass was invented as shorthand technique for organists to accompany polyphonic pieces and masses from the keyboard since the music was us

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
bject of Baroque style, antico vs. moderno, I would be very > curious to see Bach's BC realizations of Palestrina! Are they > extant, does anybody know? > > On Jul 29, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Alfonso Marin wrote: > >> If we all would have this actitude to early music, wouldn'

[LUTE] Re: Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
at least > you will > have found your own voice as an accompanist, which is as important as > finding your own voice as a soloist. > > Whatever ;-) > > Rob MacKillop > > www.rmguitar.info > > > > -Original Message- > From: Alfonso Marin [mailt

[LUTE] Early Baroque basso continuo rules

2007-07-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Ariel and all, At the "Sweelinck Conservatorium" (now called "Conservatorium van Amsterdam") were I studied the lute, we had a very interesting course given by by a great expert on basso continuo theory and practice called Therese de Goede. She is one of the leading scholars on the re

[LUTE] Re: Continuo

2007-07-26 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Ariel, I think that you starting up from a wrong concept. Playing continuo is not about learning positions for chords but reading a bass and adding the right harmonies to it as a result of counterpoint and correct voice leading. If you think in "chords positions" like jazz players do,

[LUTE] Re: Ave Maria by Tromboncino

2007-07-22 Thread Alfonso Marin
It could well be that those recorded versions were taken and intabulated from a vocal polyphonic setting by Tromboncino. I have looked in Jeppesen's book for concordances but I can not find the piece. Do any of you know of any polyphonic version of it? Thanks again, Alfonso -- To get on or

[LUTE] Re: Ave Maria by Tromboncino

2007-07-22 Thread Alfonso Marin
ong, but not so far as to not be plausible; the > Lute > player my have put together his/her own part. Not only is this > possible it > is historical. > > Vance Wood > - Original Message - > From: "Alfonso Marin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lu

[LUTE] Re: food & drink songs?

2007-04-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear David, I guess you already counted with "Most men prefer spanish wine" in the "songs from manuscript sources" by Stainer & Bell. Greetings, Alfonso On 28-apr-2007, at 10:11, LGS-Europe wrote: > I'm looking for songs about food and drink. Both lute songs and > continuo > songs are welc

[LUTE] Moulinie airs

2007-04-28 Thread Alfonso Marin
, the musicologist Mark. A. Meadow, but he did not reply. Does someone can offer any help? Thanks in advance, Alfonso Marin To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Schlick 1512

2007-04-22 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I have a facsimile of the Schlick 1512 book and since I can not read german tablature, I wonder if any of you knows of an edition of the songs in italian or french tablature. Do any of you have performed these lute songs? Are they interesting? thanks for your help, greetings, Alfon

[LUTE] Modern edition of vihuela songs

2007-04-11 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I am thinking about editing the songs for vihuela and voice into an edition more suitable for performance than the original facsimiles. I have special interest on the songs without mensural notation were the singing part is indicated by red cyphers. I would like to know of somebody

[LUTE] Simone Verovio 1589[8] Ghirlanda di fioretti musicali

2007-04-10 Thread Alfonso Marin
Thanks very much to all of you, Best wishes, Alfonso Marin Giacomo Vincenti 1591[14] Canzonette per cantar et sonar di liuto a tre voci ... libro primo (Venice : Giacomo Vincenti) Giacomo Vincenti 1591b[15] Canzonette per cantar et sonar di liuto a tre voci ... libro secondo (Venice

[LUTE] Some thoughts on accessibility of original sources of music (was Morley's canzonets with lute 1597)

2007-04-09 Thread Alfonso Marin
f Bologna holds one of the best lute collections in the world and, at least by e-mail, it is not possible to even get a reply from them. If I ever become president of my country, my first pronouncement would be: Free facsimiles for everybody! ;) Many greetings to all of you, Alfonso Mar

[LUTE] Re: Morleys Canzonets with lute 1597

2007-04-09 Thread Alfonso Marin
Witch can be unprotected in 5 seconds!!! Greetings, Alfonso On 10-apr-2007, at 2:14, Stephan Olbertz wrote: > Am 7 Apr 2007 um 18:13 hat Daniel F Heiman geschrieben: > >> Should the LSA digitize all the films in the Library? Nice idea. >> Requires quite a bit of (volunteer?) time by someone. Th

[LUTE] Selva di Varia Ricreatione (1590) free online facsimile

2007-04-08 Thread Alfonso Marin
fonso Marin - Valeria Mignaco & Alfonso Marin soprano-lute duo ----- Alfo

[LUTE] Facsimile of Cornelio Antonelli 1570

2007-04-08 Thread Alfonso Marin
identifier: CNCE 36543 Location: FI0098 Biblioteca nazionale centrale - Firenze Does any of you have the facsimile of it or knows about a publication of it even in modern notation? Thanks very much for your help, Greetings, Alfonso Marin -- To get on or off this list see list informati

[LUTE] Morleys Canzonets with lute 1597

2007-04-03 Thread Alfonso Marin
nks to you!! best wishes, Alfonso Marin ----- Valeria Mignaco & Alfonso Marin soprano-lute duo ------

[LUTE] Sources for voice and Lute

2007-03-30 Thread Alfonso Marin
facsimile, anything would be appreciated. Thanks very much to all of you. Best wishes, Alfonso Marin TABLATURE DE LUTH ITALIENNE. ca 1505. - 110 pi=E8ces pour luth seul et accompagnements pour luth d'=9Cuvres vocales. Fac-simile du ms. de la Biblioth=E8que nationale, Paris. R

[LUTE] Gorzanis 1570

2007-03-27 Thread Alfonso Marin
matches. Could anyone help me to locate this book? Thanks very much in advance, Best wishes to all, Alfonso Marin -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: O Sting, where is thy death?

2006-10-16 Thread Alfonso Marin
On 16-okt-2006, at 20:41, Daniel Shoskes wrote: > The lute playing however was much worse than on the CD. Horrible > tone, illogical tempo changes, rattling glissandi, lots of > mistakes. Probably the worst "professional" performance I have ever > heard. I guy did not pass the entrance exa

[LUTE] Re: There is thy Sting

2006-10-14 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, Since I see that the Sting threat is still on I will take the opportunity to tell my true and opinion about it. The question about Sting is very simple and obvious. He had the chance to record Dowland and had so much publicity and apparent success with it because he is STING . Erin

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Craig, The everage string length of historical archlutes is 64-67 cm. That of the theorbos is 78 to 93 cm. Huge difference ¡ > There seems to be a strong division over the reasons why theorbos > are tuned re-entrantly. One side says it has to do with string > tension, string length,

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
ggest you read the archives. > > MH > > > > Alfonso Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matyn, > > If you can find gut (or even nylgut) strings that will allow a > theorbo of 90cm in A to be tuned without re-entrant tuning, please, > let me know. I will be

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
, a string of say > 10mm in diameter will, of course, require a much greater force to > break than one of, say, 0.01mm but it has a much greater cross- > sectional area and the Breaking Stress (ie Breaking Force/Cross- > sectional area) is identical for the two strings. > >

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-13 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear Craig, The re-entrant tuning on the theorbo has its origins on the physical nature of gut strings. The long string lengths of this instrument makes impossible to get gut thin enough to have the 2nd and 1st strings at "normal" pitch. This apparent drawback, used with intelligence on

[LUTE] Iconography site

2006-10-12 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, I forgot to tell you that on my website, under the section "links" (any language you choose) there is a link to a new lute and pluck instruments iconography site I have made. It a bit messy at the moment and some information from some pictures is still missing. Here is the site:

[LUTE] Talking about lutesongs and Dowland...

2006-10-09 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear all, To cool down from all this Sting related discussion I invite you all to visit our completely renewed lute-song website. I would like to know your opinion about the music (we have almost all tracks from our recording available online for you to listen) and the website itself. I al

[LUTE] Re: Sound

2006-03-20 Thread Alfonso Marin
So what are various folks preferences for wood for a lute? For example, rosewood versus yew as mentioned? Does the type of wood make a huge difference in terms of volume or just in terms of tone? I'm a folk harpist (at this point just a would-be lutenist) and wood does make a tangible dif

[LUTE] Baroque guitar case

2006-02-17 Thread Alfonso Marin
ddress and I can not find it. Anyone knows how to contact "Meinel Etuis". Thanks in advance for your help! Greetings to all of you fellow pluckers, Alfonso Marin To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: microphones

2005-04-15 Thread Alfonso Marin
t; may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the > sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, > use > it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. > > > > > --- Alfonso Marin Ruysdaelkade 203 1072 AV Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: + 31 20 6705218 --

Introduce your lutes to the list!

2005-01-17 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
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Introduce your lutes to the list!

2005-01-17 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
ould be happier with a louder sound. The level of craftsmanship is really good but not mint. I have also a vihuela but the quality is not good enough to be mention here. I am looking forward to know about your instruments! Many greetings, Alfonso marin To get on or off this list see list

Catalan composer

2004-11-09 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
Dear all, Do any of you know of a catalan (from Catalonia) composer from around 1600 that has songs accompained by baroque guitar or simply basso continuo? Thanks, Alfonso To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Catalan composer

2004-11-09 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
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www.lutevoice.com and Windows (2)

2004-10-22 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
Sorry I forgot to add the link on my previous message: www.lutevoice.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

www.lutevoice.com and Windows

2004-10-22 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
the soprano is wonderful! Let me know what you think, Greetings to all of you, Alfonso Marin To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

New lutesong web-site

2004-10-20 Thread Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar
Dear all, Some of you may remember me from some months ago when a was a member of the lute-list. I was to busy to digest all the mails from the list and I decided to unsubscribe for a while. I have decided to join again now that I have a bit more time to be active on the it. I just finished a

" early" Italian dictionary

2003-09-29 Thread Alfonso Marin
"Oxford English Dictionary" has a counterpart in the Italian language? Is there a CD room version? Thanks for your help once more. Many greetings to all, Alfonso Marin

Theorbo string tension and nylgut issues

2003-09-23 Thread Alfonso Marin
that the string gauges for Nylgut are the same as for gut strings. I have heard some people saying that Nylgut should be slightly thinker than gut in order to obtain the same tension. What are your experiences about this? Thanks to all in advance, Alfonso Marin