[LUTE] Re: Wer suchet, der findet

2018-04-17 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Rainer,  Thanks for this interesting information! Be however so nice to leave the poor widows in peace! ;) Joachim Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: Rainer Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2018 15:47 An: Lute net Antwort an: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-12 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Well, also possible: Friendly, courtly, and yours... Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: jo.lued...@t-online.de Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2018 16:43 An: Rainer; Lute net Antwort an: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-12 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Ich dhin mit gantzer Freud der lieb Nur als Idee. Diese Texte sind oft so voller verklausulierter Partikel... Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: Rainer Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2018 16:39 An: Lute net Antwort an: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff:

[LUTE] Re: Freundlich hoflich dhin darbei

2018-03-12 Thread Jo . Luedtke
‎Dear Rainer, dear list, Well, it is not necesarily nonsense, but neithertheless puzzling as long as you don't know how the text may continue. Best, Joachim Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: Rainer Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2018 15:52 An: Lute net

[LUTE] Re: Loose frets

2018-03-10 Thread Jo . Luedtke
‎I don't know what it consists of. The stuff comes from a supplier of varnish components and ready-made varnishes in Franconia and is simply called "Saitenoel" (string oil). From the smell I suspect that it contains at least some percent of bisti. Best Joachim Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry

[LUTE] Re: Loose frets

2018-03-10 Thread Jo . Luedtke
‎Dear list, I don't use water, but I wipe a drop of string oil over each length of fret gut I am going to put on the neck of whatever lute or guitar instrument‎. Greetings, Joachim Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: fournierbru Gesendet: Samstag, 10. März

[LUTE] Re: Mein Einigs A

2018-01-04 Thread Jo . Luedtke
‎Forget the Horace, Peter, and also the question about the identity of A! H is "Humanistenoden" stuff, that means: information about lute versions of music composed to set texts from ye olde latin classics for the use in Latin Schools has somehow contaminated the informational content refering

[LUTE] Re: PS Re: New music

2017-12-28 Thread Jo . Luedtke
PoD has sometimes played the Minuet as en encore... the Sonata wa composed in 1943, and someone once remarked (rightly, I think) that somehow it is difficult not being reminded of those trains rolling eastwards then Joachim Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht  

[LUTE] Re: thumb on diapason?

2006-12-01 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Arthur, thank you for this striking example. From now on I will try to put my left thumb into action when playing Francesco's music as often as possible, ;) Joachim Arthur Ness mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have put some more examples here, including two supposed Francesco portraits,

[LUTE] Re: thumb on diapason?

2006-11-30 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Anthony and all, at the moment I do not (becaused at the moment I am playing mainly a ten-course instrument) and when I came to the lute I tried to avoid using the left thumb at all, but: it had worked well for me on folk and rock guitar (early nineteenth-century guitar tutors are said to

[LUTE] Re: thumb on diapason?

2006-11-30 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Anthony and all, yes - but would he use it to thumb his way through his own Fantasia 50 or through La Compagna? Leaving the question aside if the identification with Francesco is convincing or not - I think that too many things going on on the fingerboard mean not so many opportunities for

[LUTE] Eyeglasses to Lutes

2006-11-28 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Manolo, Donatella, Roman and everyone else, thanks for your mails! Someone pointed to Eco's novel a few days before and I wrote that Eco had published something about anachronisms he used in Il nome della rosa which takes plaxe in the 1320's. These did not include eyeglasses. Also there have

[LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses (fwd)

2006-11-28 Thread Jo . Luedtke
---Ursprüngliche Nachricht--- Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Empfänger: Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:Re: [LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses Dear Caroline, uh - it must have been my mirror image in the morning calling me elderly, :) Midden might be the better word, although I

[LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses

2006-11-27 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Ron and dear Tony, I think you are both right in pointing to these aspects of stigmatism (the german word for four eyes during my school days was Brillenschlange =spectacled cobra). Indeed I have the impression that it is difficult do find depictions of people (real people, that is, not

[LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses

2006-11-27 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Moin-moin, Wolfgang! That's such a one as the Narrenschiff-guy: the theologican is trying in vain to find in his books an explanation for what is happening (he is looking for a page with the foretelling of Christ's coming, e.g.). The eyeglasses mark his inability to understand. All best, Joachim

[LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses

2006-11-26 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Stephen, no - you are not, although Eco admitted after the publication of Il nome della rosa that he had smuggled some rather recent ideas (he named Wittgenstein) into his character's mouths. But with respect to eyeglasses - I suspect in future years I like many other elderly people will

[LUTE] Re: Eyeglasses

2006-11-26 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Ron and all, thank you for the suggestion and please forgive my tired head for using this expression. I once found it written on a little box meant to hold things you don't find a better place for: Tusculum was a town near Rome. Cicero had a villa nearby: Tusculanum. Over the course of the

[LUTE] Re: Too soft to live

2006-10-12 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear David and all, I object to clause 4, :). Without having been present at Linda Sayce's lecture I understand from what was posted about that lecture that she commented on the role the mandora played during the time the late baroque lute (i.e. the 13 to 14 course instrument in d-Minor tuning)

[LUTE] Re: Sting

2006-10-10 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Alfonso and all, Alfonso Marin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [snip] Initially, before listening to the CD, I was very curious about the whole project and I really trusted that at least an interesting musical result would come out of it. I am now very disappointed by the

[LUTE] Re: Galant Continuo

2006-09-13 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Arto an all, the female ones top them males here in the eastern part of Bajuvaria, too: last May I received a wonderful new 10 course lute in Regensburg and rode home by train . One of a group of girls in the compartment asked what instrument were in the case and said after I had answered

[LUTE] Re: Galant continuo

2006-09-13 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Edward an all, that's a wonderful one! Has anybody on the list an idea where the poem supposed to be written by Brockes (which seems to be unlikely given the general lack of irony, sarcasm and even humour in this poet) ist to be found where theorboes are called Giraffes? Best, Joachim

[LUTE] Re: Galant Continuo

2006-09-12 Thread Jo . Luedtke
SINGER: What on earth is it? A guitar? ME: Its called a theorbo. SINGER: Oh yeah, that's from the Middle Ages. (She wasn't joking) .. and then there are those who think they've found out something: About ten years ago. Me carrying a lute in its case over a moderately crowded square in

[LUTE] Re: Matelart Fantasia Terza (fwd)

2006-08-28 Thread Jo . Luedtke
---Ursprüngliche Nachricht--- Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Empfänger: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:Re: [LUTE] Matelart Fantasia Terza Dear Stewart, SPES's razor: always choosing the cleaner copy at hand to produce a facsimile! (Entia annotanda in manuscripto non

[LUTE] Re: Matelart Fantasia Terza

2006-08-27 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Stewart, at first I was puzzled by your mail until I realized that my copy of the SPES-facsimile of the Matelart book is from the second printing (1984) of Archivum Musicum 10 which was made from the Paris copy of the original print - and this is free from manuscript barlines and diverse

[LUTE] Re: 8-course lute literature?

2006-08-17 Thread Jo . Luedtke
Dear Luca, take a look into the music of Pietro Paolo Raimondo's Libro de Sonate diverse 1601, e.g. (a Ms. in Como, published in facsimile in 1980). Courses 7 and 8 come in diverse tunings in this book - as is the case with other Italian lute manuscripts around and after 1600 - which makes it a