In a message dated 7/24/07 11:54:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My take on this magnified sketch, is that there are nails on all but the
little finger.
When this engraving is viewed from an original source, or even in the spes
facsimile, the nails are very clearly seen, and the shadow
In a message dated 7/25/07 1:01:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it's interesting to see that
it still can be reasonable to play lute instruments with guitar technique
(with only minor
adjustments).
While I may be wrong, I believe that Gary was not referring to playing the
lute with
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Ok...for somew reason it seems that my last posting the enclosed engraving
did not make it to the listso here it is again, but this time I am sending the
url to the Pellegrini engraving
Pellegrini
Here is my previous posting:
For those of you who wish to play baroque guitar or lute with
for some freakin' reason aol would note post the hyperlink to the Pellegrini
url...
so here it is...
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.library.appstate.edu/music/guitar/pellegrini1.jpg;
Might anyone have a phone number (cell home) for Jason Yoshida?
Thanks,
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Sorry for the intrusion..
Alex,
Please contact me when you get a chance
Richard Savino
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In a message dated 10/14/06 1:14:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The initial question (as I understood it) was: why was it developed ?
I doubt if the origin of the re-entrant tuning of the 4-course or 5-course
(??) guitar in the 16th century had anything to do with campanela playing.
There
Lex,
We are in total agreement, I was just responding to your comment:
I doubt if the origin of the re-entrant tuning of the 4-course or 5-course
(??) guitar in the 16th century had anything to do with campanela playing.
There is no music left to show us.
My point was that there is music for
Not having kept close track of this thread I apologize in advance if I am
repeating information here.
Please note that my comments are specifically in relation to 17th 18th
century Italian music.
With the change in musical style that occurred at the turn of the 17th
century performers (and
In a message dated 10/10/06 8:22:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But the guitar survived, and it did not become a concert-hall instrument
until the 20th century.- There's a massive amount of chamber music from the
19th century.- Why couldn't the lute have continued equally with the guitar
Dear Luters,
I find it interesting that some people get so ruffled at the idea that
someone approaches what is beginning to seem like a sacred repertoire from an
alternative perspective.
But more to the point, speaking from a historical perspective, we know that a
number of Dowland's songs
In a message dated 9/26/06 10:16:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But now we have a chance to ask someone why are all your instruments singly
strung. There seems to be a lot of evidence that English Theorbos
were not singly strung. I think it is safe to say that theorboed lutes were
always
Gordon Mark,
Again, please don't mis-interpret what I am saying. Clearly double strung
theorboes and/or theorboed lutes, as well as instruments with the first
course tuned down the octave existed and were played. No dissention here.
But, clearly single strung theorboes did exist in
Dear Luters,
I just wanted to let you know that Magnatune has recently re-issued the
following cds of mine (all of which are on period instruments). You can
either
download these or have them shipped as cds.
Danza y Diferencias: Music of Santiago de Murcia
Music for solo baroque
This evening El Mundo will perform a program of 17th 18th century music
from from Spain and Italy on the Music On The Hill series in San Francisco, CA.
The program will feature music by: Jose Marin, Juan Hidalgo , Sebastian
Duron, Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Giovanni
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Clearly the jpeg of the Pellegrini engraving did not come through so I
am now sending it as an attachment
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David,
I play all of my instruments with some degree of nail, but I change the
angle of my wrist and the angle of the finger stroke for each
instrument. It's not so hard to do once you get used to it.
But, when playing fast 16th century division music I play with no
thumbnail (which I usually
I know that this is a bit late.but tonight El Mundo will be performing a
beautiful collection of 17th 18th cenutry music from Peru, Mexico,
Guatemala, Spain Italy at the Tropical Baroque Festival sponsored by the
Miami Bach
Society in Coral Gables, Florida.
Miami Bach Society
EL MUNDO
Could someone please email me Nancy Carlin's phone number?
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Dear Readers,
I wanted to make sure that you knew of El Mundo's most recent release
Villancicos y Cantadas on the Koch label (#7654). It consists of a
wonderful
collection of 17th 18th century music from Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, Spain and
Italy. We have numerous concerts in the Southwest
In a message dated 8/13/05 10:14:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, the one I'm thinking of had Leopold holding a lute-like instrument.
=A0 But again, it may be a product of my deranged imagination.
H
Howard the one with the guitar is Mozart, but there is also one of Haydn
Dear List Readers:
I am writing to remind yoo this coming weekend I will be directing a
concert version of Sebastian Duron's baroque zarzuela Salir el Amor del
mundo,
(Cupid's Final Folly - 1696) at the Aston Magna Music Festival (one of
America's
premiere baroque music festivals). I
Dear Luters...
Having just finished a wonderful concert with my colleagues Monica Hugget and
Paul Beier of all 17th century Italian music in Sardinia I find myself in
Italy finishing work on my upcoming edition of Francesca Caccini's opera La
Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola Alcina (1625)
Please excuse the random mispellings and grammatical errors...the Tuscan sun
has encouraged a certain degree of mid day indulgencei.e. vino nobile di
Montepulciano.
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In a message dated 4/12/05 6:49:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are 2 types, one sweet, one not. Of the latter- one easily found is
Amarone.
RT
And if you are on a budget try a ripasso which is wine pressed through the
skins and pulp from Amarone (which is made from grapes which
In a message dated 4/12/05 7:47:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On a real budget a good thing is Primitivo di Manduria.
RT
Certo...
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I thought that the lute list might find the following concerts (early
music/classical guitar/early opera) of interest:
This Thursday and Saturday I will be playing continuo in an orchestral
arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations with the Mercury Baroque Orchestra
(it seems the my first attempt did not come through)
I thought that the lute list might find the following concerts (early
music/classical guitar/early opera) of interest:
This Thursday and Saturday I will be playing continuo in an orchestral
arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations with the
There was an interesting article by Eric Walter Hill in Early Music a few
years (1993 I think) that addresses the issue of Florentine manuscripts
contining
intabulated continuo accompaniments to late 16th and early 17th century
monody.
If i am not mistaken (I am still in Denver playing
For those who are interested I touched on this issue (for 19th c. guitars) i=
n=20
my essay: Essential Issues in the Performance Practices of the Classical=20
Guitar c. 1770-1850 contained in the book: Performance on the Guitar, Lute=
, and=20
Vihuela; edited by Victor Anan Coelho. (Cambridge
Just a note
There is substantial evidence of wound strings used on late 18th early 19th
century guitars..on the title page of many works published in Vienna shows
this very clearly.
Also, if my memory serves me well, there is a reference to the use of wound
strings (of some sort) in the
Just a quick note:
It should be rememmbered that Flamenco is the music of the Gypsy/Romani people
who emigrated from Northern India around the year 1000 AD and were first
documented in Spain in the 15th century.
There are some interesting parallels between Flamenco and Indian raga music:
The CSUS Department of Music and the Visiting Scholars Program will present=20
Les Deux Amis in recital on Sunday, October 17 at 7:30 pm in Room 151 of=20
Capistrano Hall. This is a FREE concert. Made up of lutist/guitarists John=20
Schneiderman and Richard Savino Les Deux Amis will present a
It is with sadness and regret that I inform the readers of this list that Los
Angeles based lutenist Michael Eagan passed away on Wednesday, August 11,
2004.
In addition to performing with numerous groups Michael was also the founder
and director of Musica Angelica.
RS
In a message dated 8/1/04 10:28:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry for ruining your argument with mere empiricism, but I'm looking at
the
facsimile of Toccata Prima as I write. Every chord with a arpeggio symbol
has exactly four notes. Four shalt thou play, and the number of the
counting
Piccinini essentially gives the same instructions as Kapsberger does in his
Book 3 (3, 4, 5, 6 note chords) but always ends on the highest note even if
the arpeggio is not strictly ascending..
But he also has a sign for a different arpeggio pattern. For a 4 note
arpeggio pattern he puts the
NEWS RELEASE
Houston Early Music
www.houstonearlymusic.org Who:EL MUNDO
Contact: Nancy Ellis 281-356-2658 When: 8:00 p.m.
Friday, May 7, 2004
Tickets: 713-432-1744 Where: Christ Church Cathedral
On the weekend of April 30 - May 2 the San Francisco Early Music Society
(SFEMS) will present El Mundo, a chamber music group specializing in music from
Spain, Latin America and Italy. Under the direction of guitarist/lutenist and
Richard Savino, El Mundo will offer a concert version of
For those of you in the Portland OR area, the following concerts might be of
interest:
From the Heart of Italy
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Monica Huggett, violin director
(R Savino, archlute baroque guitar)
Featured composers include:
Geminiani, Bonporti, Vivaldi, Cimador, Albinoni and
On Friday March 26, the CSU Sacramento Festival of the Arts and the Dept. of
Music are proud to present the El Mundo. a chamber music group specializing in
music from Spain, Latin America and Italy. Under the direction of
guitarist/lutenist and CSUS Music Professor Richard Savino, El Mundo will
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