[LUTE] Re: Hi all

Josh wrote: afford a Lute but I was able to buy a 36" guitar about the size of an old Baroque guitar 36inch as about 91cm ?! That's a pretty large string length ... I have a 52cm 'children's' guitar beside my desk. Low tension strings, no need to say top three of gut, tuned to g'. For a qui

[LUTE] Re: life or death

Good tip! David - Original Message - From: "Ron Andrico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:13 PM Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: life or death Dear David: 'O dear life' from Musical Banqu

[LUTE] Re: life or death

Holborne's Last Will and Testament is a good one! As is the Countess of Pembroke's Funerals. David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <

[LUTE] Re: Deep Purple

Last year (or was it two years ago?) they filled one of the major football stadiums in Holland with loads and loads of guitarists, just to play Smoke on the Water together. Perhaps time to put on my lute repertoire ... David - smoke on the water, frets on fire

[LUTE] Re: When the poor cripple--possibly consort song

d van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: When the poor cripple--possibly co

[LUTE] Re: When the poor cripple--possibly consort song

hing wrong :-) he's just weird old dude... my guess, i to create a dissonance, creating some kind of a wormhole effect to grab the audience. we should ask captain spock about it On Aug 16, 2008, at 5:57 PM, LGS-Europe wrote: John Dowland, A Pilgrimes Solace, nr. 16 Opening measure. Lute st

[LUTE] Re: Fuessen lute makers book

PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "Henry Villca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 1:42 PM Subje

[LUTE] Re: Fuessen lute makers book

Hi Ed No, the book is in Geman. David Is the book in English? ed At 02:23 PM 8/15/2008 +0200, you wrote: I'm sure people will know, but it's just that I didn't and thought it might be of interest to others, too. There's a nice booklet about the lute makers in Fuessen with historical and so

[LUTE] Re: Lyrics for Robert.

Herbert, It's not in Van der Werf, but I found it in a little booklet by Friedrich Gennrich (Exempla Altfranzoesischer Lyrik, Langen bei Frankfurt, 1965). Find it attached as pdf. enjoy David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl ***

[LUTE] Re: 1/6 C MT versus Valotti

m there. True, this is the temperament my Korg MT-1200 calls Valotti & Young, btw. David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl Best wishes, Martin LGS-Europe wrote: Bruno wrote: Talking about tuning, my K

[LUTE] Re: 1/6 C MT versus Valotti

otti/default.html David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl Best wishes, Martin LGS-Europe wrote: Bruno wrote: Talking about tuning, my Korg OT-120 has just arrived! Question is: How do I tune to meantone temperament? If I want 1/4.1/6 o

[LUTE] Re: More on lute songs

te rightly in my view, that printed lute song tablatures ought not be regarded like modern urtext editions and that many lutenists, especially professional players, would have added/arranged the accompaniments to suite their individual tastes. MH --- On Sun, 27/7/08, LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECT

[LUTE] Re: More on lute songs

east, misjudgement in his handling of words and a rather jejune taste" (p. 106) "Many of the contents of [Pilkington's] First Booke of Songs (1605) are rather turgid" (p.33) And so on. Miserable. Frankly, I would avoid Spink and spend the time on the music instead. P

[LUTE] Re: More on lute songs

Bruno wrote: Thanks for the info! Is the book from Ian Spink still availlable? I only find used ones... I wouldn't know. I found mine 18 years ago, new, in 'De Slegte', the Dutch bookshop that stocks what we call shop daughters: remains from normal shops and publishers that are sold cheaply

[LUTE] Re: More on lute songs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "Ron Andrico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute-cs. dartmouth. edu" Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 3:45 PM Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: More on lute s

[LUTE] Re: Dowland's Lutes

Luthier, Martin Shepherd, has contributed a thought-provoking essay on Dowland's lutes (which also touches on string lengths, pitches, etc) to the John Dowland website. I'm sure Martin would be very happy to answer any questions you have after reading it. Please use this discussion group for y

[LUTE] Re: Alfabeto songs and editions

I couldn't find your scores on your page, just a reference to this email. Can you tell us where they are? They were hidden in the middle of my screen ... Sorry, found them. Looking good, as ever, and lovely music, of course. I prefer the bass to be under and the vocal part to be on top. Any wr

[LUTE] Re: Take II: last joints that bend backwards.

How so, Vance? I have a double first course lute too, and don't see the connection. What's different in first and second or third courses? David I will offer my opinion on the right hand. I play a Lute with a doubled first course. Having the ability to collapse the first joint of the digits

[LUTE] Re: Improvising and Composing?

| / || -r ||-- -/ || -a-||-- - | a/a| Mathias "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Grand staff notation may be useful as far as renaissance mus

[LUTE] Re: Bizarre info request, bordering on advice request

No feathers ruffled here.. What's an EE degree? Isn't it easier to fit an extra neck on an old guitar, and go for something like 10 or 12 single strings? Keep it in E, first two strings down an octave (use a D and an A string) and just use low E strings for the bourdons? You could use the hea

[LUTE] Re: Lute DSP

this is "Lute DSP" DSP? Digital signal processing? Divine sensory perception? DSP, Good sir, what is that, I pray you tell me. [Did I pick up this thread in mid flight? (Should that be mid spin?)] So far I have come up with D Student Programme. Stuck with the D. Dilligent is good candidate,

[LUTE] Re: Messiah ...

Figured bass continuo part http://scores.ccarh.org/handel/messiah/continuo/cont21.pdf Thank you, Arthur! Much clearer than my copied cello part with pencilled in figures. I'll use this part next time. I find Handel confusing at times: easy figures, very predictable, so almost possible t

[LUTE] Re: Messiah ...

Dear Elly A friend of mine would like to know if anyone knows of an edition of Handel's /Messiah/ which has the figured bass rather than a realisation ? He's wanting it for a performance where he'll be accompanying on theorbo ... I bought the Baerenreiter pocket score, largely unfigured, but a

[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings

one over 155cm. Size matters in small planes and taxis. It certainly does. "Toy" planes are historically incorrect. ROTFLOL! Actually, the instrument took shape in my head when I visited the instrument museum in Paris one fine afternoon before playing an evening concert on the larger archlut

[LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make?

I found these pictures and text explaining how to split a feather and make one of the resulting halves of the tip (the bit stuck into the bird) into a plectrum, much like a pen, very instructive: http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=263874652887a855b1a3a0ff8f6a6f14;act=ST;f=6;t=1

[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings

Daniel wrote: -- David - has a 61/106cm archlute with single basses I see we are in the same ballpark. Is yours based on a particular historical model? Mine was just a salvage operation, (done as a favor), on an old, small 10 course. It's a combination of my wishes and the maker's ideas,

[LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make?

I'm just an occasional dabbler in plectrum technique and I'm getting really confused! Two related things are bothering me - which end of the damned feather to use, and (difficult to phrase this one), wobbly or stiff? A guitar string (or presumably a lute string) or the thin end of a feather

[LUTE] Re: London Manuscript revisited.

Next, I appreciate that this piece is for Baroque Lute and that the tuning is therefore I think different to 8 course, but can it be transposed to 8 course? No. But it can be arranged for 8-course. Question is how well this can be done. But it won't the same as the original, that's for sure.

[LUTE] Re: Tempus est iocundum - original melody

Jolly, indeed. Btw, what's all the advertisement on the right hand got to do with it, who thinks these companies, or what they sell, have anything to do with mandolins? Trendy tankini of bikini Extreme Micro Bikinis Hot Celeb Girl Pics Badkleding Salty Dog Free Weekly Horoscope David - b

[LUTE] Re: Fly Foot Meantone

dt wrote: I have been using David van Ooijen's system for some time now and it works perfectly. Glad it worked for you. Sounds like an advertisement actually, so here's my part of the commercial: I've updated bit by bit my DIY mean-tone page, included calculations for 1/6 pythagorean comma

[LUTE] Re: New Baroque lute/Meantone

Dear Anthony Forget the details. If you're happy with your top string a little lower than whatever (i.e. just below breaking point), but some table (i. e. mine) says that for some particular flavour of some particular temperament (i.e. 1/6 meantone) your top string should be a little higher (i

[LUTE] Re: Singing English Lute Songs

made the remark that not all lute songs are for one to four voices. Point taken; a few have a fifth part. Dowland's 'Welcome Black Night' comes to mind. Cleare or Coudie, also second book. David David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl

[LUTE] Re: Singing English Lute Songs

Stewart was kind of enough to find no less than nine spelling mistakes and made the remark that not all lute songs are for one to four voices. Point taken; a few have a fifth part. Dowland's 'Welcome Black Night' comes to mind. David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTE

[LUTE] lute songs by counter-tenors

Martin Shepherd brought up the subject a while ago, with the thought-provoking comments by David Hill. Here's an eyes (ear?) wittness report by someone who should know what lute songs are all about: " ... Song was sung by an excellent counter-tenor voice, with rare varietie of division." (Thomas

[LUTE] Re: CD "Von edler Art" in Cleveland

And a lovely cd it is. Let her bring 10. ;-) David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "Michal Gondko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[LUTE]" Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:52 AM

[LUTE] Re: baroque lute song accompaniments

Kremberg comes to mind. David - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Narvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:09 AM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] baroque lute song accompaniments Dear Collected Wisdom, I'm trying to get my hands on some songs with

[LUTE] Re: lute songs

Martin Thank you for forwarding David Hill's email, it does raise interesting issues. Just a few points. You wrote: I have some reasons to believe that Dowland would have expected to hear his songs about a tone or perhaps even a minor third below modern pitch Why? if we allow a substantia

[LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make?

David T. wrote: >I take the quill and iron it with a heavy iron, then shape it. First iron, or first split the feather? Feather of what bird? Do you use the tip or the end of the feather? Quill sounds like tip to me. > There are a number of other materials you can use, including thin > strips o

[LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make?

Eugène wrote: I have used goose quill prepared following this procedure: .. etc. I have found excellent and consistent results using a particular model of Bic pen:

[LUTE] Re: look what the cat brought in

Me neither, pity indeed. Might have been fun. Like the Finnish cello octet that plays Metallica. Awsome, as our Americans friends would say. ;-) David - Original Message - From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[LUTE] medieval plectrum, how to make?

How do people make their (medieval) plectra? I have chopped up and sanded down some turkey feathers, different techniques, different thickness/stiffnes, but I'm only half convinced of the sound. Advice much appreciated. David - To be honest, I still like my Fender heavy best, but it looks soo

[LUTE] Re: strumming

''As for the proposed idea of soundboard bars getting loose, there are some precautionary measures against this in your guitar - bar end supports. So with the kind of strumming / hitting that you do the bars should be fine, unless you hit really hard.'' I should add that I don't actually hit ha

[LUTE] Re: What if a day

>> Speaking of lute songs, does anyone know where to find a renaissance version of "What if a day" with tab accompaniment? << You can use version in Poulton's Dowland book to make an accompaniment. It's also in Valerius as Merck toch hoe Sterck, I'll send you the version I made for a workshop o

[LUTE] Re: Lute songs

Bruno I have many recordings of lute songs, but I don't recall hearing the shades you mention (next time I'll hear them more carefully). .. We have to be carefull with recordings because anything is possible in terms of blending (just to remember classical guitar and orquestra!), but live is

[LUTE] meantone fretting table

For the sceptics, those who don't want to do their own math, for the math challenged, for the kind, and not so kind, messages on- as well as off-list, in person even (hoi Taco!) but most of all for all of you who, with me, consider this to be a complicated issue anyway and who welcome every bit

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

By the way, is it known, in which pitch Vivaldi's orchestra was using? The short answer is no. To answer the question, we'd have to be sure where he was when he wrote it (he toured around a great deal) Search the archives. Last year (?) the collected wisdom answered my queries about this lut

[LUTE] Re: Mille Ducas

Susato, Tielman (c.1500-c.1561): Dances from Danserye (1551),Pavane, Gaillarde, et Ronde "Mille ducas" Grey-bearded windband players are highly familiar with the venerable Schott edition in two small booklets of this work with small print and other faults, Alamire has very affordable facsimile

[LUTE] Re: Mille Ducas

Anthony Susato was born in Cologne I read he was born is Soest (The Netherlands), hence his name. We were both right, but I was wrong in assuming Soest in The Netherlands, there is another Soest. This is what the New Grove has to say: Susato, Tylman [Tielman] (b c1510-1515, Soest, nr Dor

[LUTE] Re: Hurel

Dear Tony I have the 1996 Minkoff facsimile. In its colofon it says it is printed with the permission of the Piermont Morgan Library, New York, the owner of the ms. It also says photocopy prohibited. If your copy has modern folio numbers on the right hand bottom of every other page, it's a fai

[LUTE] Re: Asking for Help with Chaccone by Robert de Visee in G dur

Hi Anton I would like to ask you for help. I have been playing the Chaccone in G by Robert de Visee from the Saizenay Manuscript. But I hear a much more extended version of the piece performed by Yasunori Immamura and Jose Miguel Moreno on thir CDs. It has beautiful minor section with 16th note

[LUTE] Re: Telemann Hochzeitscantata

Thomas wrote: You'll find many of his music (and a lot of unpublished and unknown music) in Frankfurt http://telemann.info/ http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/artikel/telemann.html I regret I don't know if the Cantata in question is in the Frankfurt collection. No, it is not. But thanks for

[LUTE] Re: Heinichen for theorbo

IL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Heinichen for theorbo Hi, David-- I was asked to play the piece with a student ensemble a couple years ago. They all played modern instruments at 440. I playe

[LUTE] Heinichen for theorbo

I'm to play the Heinichen concerto in D for flute, oboe, violins, cello, theorbo and bc (Seibel 226) next month. Anybody ever did this before and remember what instrument he/she used? It says tiorba in the autograph. The range is A1 till a'. C and C# are both needed, as are E and E-flat, F and

[LUTE] Re: Buying Francesco da Milano - Ness

I suppose most of us are aware of the Seicento edition of Francesco's Gesammelte Lautenwerke. The content is a Ness copy, Ness order even, in french tab only. It's cheap (ring bound) and available. David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl ***

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

ersfoort On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:02 PM, LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to reverse engineer a 'proper' bass line to Nina (canzonetta), long wrongly attributed to Pergolesi but actually by Legrenzi Ciampi (1719-?). All I have is the well-known Arie Antique version

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

ing a programme with a Japanese singer with Japanese and Western music. Very intercultural, but basically a good excuse to eat exclusively Japanese food for two weeks, of course. ;-) nogmaals bedankt! David - Original Message - From: "Jelma van Amersfoort" <[EMAIL

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

Thank you, Benjamin, that was helpful in that I now know I'm not the only one who doesn't know. ;-) David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl *NEWLY IDENTIFIED ITALIAN MADRIGALS * Copy & paste try 2..

[LUTE] Re: Capos

Must have sent too many mails today, as this one never arrived: Stewart wrote: The big problem is having a capo which provides enough pressure to hold all the strings down without buzzing. Modern ones use elastic or a kind of spring mechanism, but I don't know how feasible that was in the past.

[LUTE] Re: name that composer

These are the Italian originals Dering added English lyrics to in his edition of 1620. I'm interested in the names of the Italian composers. But the concert is in two hours from now. ;-) Anybody? David - Original Message - From: "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

Arthur wrote: Separately I sent a reference for the "authentic edition" of the Italian anthology (ed. Paton). The one you were looking for. Yes, a good edition actually. It has the songs from Arie Antiche with good translations, pronounciation guide, facsimile if available and a more 'hip'

[LUTE] name that composer

Tomorrow I'll have a little concert with some three- and four-part songs, which after a quick internet search I gather were taken taken from Musica Britannica volume 25. The singers gave me the copies without knowing the composers. Can someone with the book identify the composers from the follo

[LUTE] Re: Nina bass line

PLEASE look for it, Roman. Are you certain? It's from a dramma giocoso dated ca. 1747. So in 1747 the accompaniment would probably be orchestra. Here's a poor score from those song antholgies: http://www.el-atril.com/partituras/Pergolesi/Nina.pdf Thank you, Arthur, but I have that, or its

[LUTE] Nina bass line

I have to reverse engineer a 'proper' bass line to Nina (canzonetta), long wrongly attributed to Pergolesi but actually by Legrenzi Ciampi (1719-?). All I have is the well-known Arie Antique version, but I am hpoing there is a continuo bass to the original. I know the Arie Antique have a new edi

[LUTE] Re: On-line Spanish Keyboard Music

Muchas Gracias! David - Original Message - From: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:24 AM Subject: [LUTE] On-line Spanish Keyboard Music This multi-volume collection of Spanish keyboard music may be of interest to some of you. It is

[LUTE] Re: Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Mathias wrote: Measures 5-8 (first solo) I'd feel kinda nude if I was supposed to play the solo notes only. [...] The same applies to measure 10. Okay, I give in, but then I'd REALLY have to play as LOUD as I can. Why? The lute is solo but for the soft complaining flute. But, sure, continuo

[LUTE] Re: Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Are wrote: Mozart added a lute part to the flute ad libitum in the end: more broken chords. I guess this is Mozart's collected output of lute music!? Three songs with mandolin. Does that qualify? The LGS (that's us!) has publishged a collection of 21 songs with accompaniments for 10-course

[LUTE] Re: Signor Tiorba

I bought the Grove 1911 from NPC. Or, actually, received it as a free gift when I bought the complete digital Bach I think. Anyway, some two-in-one offer a while ago. David T. is right: it is both entertaining and edifying to read the old editions. But think of it: when new information is adde

[LUTE] Re: piece of the month revived

Martin I liked the ones without reverb, by far. The reverb sounds like you're in a big room but play behind a screen: all muffled and shy, not at all like the room acoustics would invite you to play! Just my two eurocents (which many shops already don't accept anymore, anyway). David

[LUTE] Re: Pittoni's theorbo?

Martyn wrote: If you have anything like the Praetorius, Mace, Picinni, Talbot evidence on large theorbos but clearly relating to smalI instruments in this tuning, I'd like to see it please. << So far we have seen evidence of reentrant tuning for large theorbos, thank you for the references

[LUTE] Re: Pittoni's theorbo?

FWIW, I play Pittoni with first two courses down, but refinger some passages to make 'more sense' in a melodic way. I'm aware that it is my sense, not Pittoni's, that I'm adjusting the music to. Here I am reminded of a wise lesson of Bob Spencer: Any alteration you make in an original, you shoul

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G? Plus some guidelines

Lost in cybervoid. So her once more: I don't. I keep mine (76cm) in a, first two courses down. All gut, 415 to 466 tested. I don't see the point why not. I haven't seen valid and or historical arguments against it. It would work in d too, I'm sure. David I understand you, David, very well

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G? Plus some guidelines

I don't. I keep mine (76cm) in a, first two courses down. All gut, 415 to 466 tested. I don't see the point why not. I haven't seen valid and or historical arguments against it. It would work in d too, I'm sure. David I understand you, David, very well, I've also got older living for years

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G? Plus some guidelines

t. It would work in d too, I'm sure. David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl Jurek _______ On 2008-01-31, at 17:25, LGS-Europe wrote: I've already very clearly explained how small t

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G? Plus some guidelines

e. If it works with the strings and your instrument, it works with your strings and your instrument. There will be a working range of tunings, d and a included. Anyway, nominal tunings are just naming conventions in a transposing world, with a floating pitch on top of that! David M

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo in G? Plus some guidelines

To the benefit of those not interested in a peeing contest but in theories on theorbo stringing, as I am, and not in the happy possesion of a list of historical theorbos stating string length and setup, here's what the guys are talking about (info taken from one of the Pohlmanns lying around her

[LUTE] Re: All JSB from china or russia

The complete Bach-Gesellschaft Edition (1851-1900) has been for some time in the public domain. I believe he rather wants to learn about safe sources of pirated music. Mustafa, this is not the place to ask for such things. No, indeed, there are those among us that publish music and

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Russian Bach site?

I have some of the discs from this box. The chamber music and a few cantatas. Quite all right if you want it all, and want it cheap. Some is really good, some is passable. Some are old recordings, some are purpose made for the box. I think I'm in the cantatas. These cds are sold under the Brill

[LUTE] Re: guitar stringing

OK, I'll join in after all. I already send my stringing off-list to Ed, but as people seem to be just as shy, or confused about it as I am, here goes nothing: I have a 68cm Sellas model made by Stephen Barber. It's in 440, 415 or whatever needed. This is what's on it (all plain gut), tension

[LUTE] Re: Siting

They seem to harvest from publicly available material. I find myself in a few clips taken from my site. David - Original Message - From: "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:04 AM Subject: [LUTE] Siting http://www.essentialvermeer.com/music/musicf

[LUTE] Re: Typesetting scores

Rocky Your score has given me the idea to try your method, but making a font with no noteheads for quarter note, eighth, etc., but to keep the half and whole as they are. Mass Mover => Utilities => Change => Noteheads => Selected Notehead Here you can change black notehead to no notehead (c

[LUTE] Re: Typesetting scores (was Re: Le Cocq - scores)

Hi Rocky Long time no see, great to hear you're playing. I have used Finale for years (for music notation and tabs) and it .. I also have created custom fonts to make some notation challenges easier. I'm a heavy Finale user too, including tabs, especially since that has become a lot easie

[LUTE] Re: Fasch concerto for two Chalcedons

x27;s enough so let's get two lutes? The Fasch conerto as well as the Trauerode don't have really independant parts, so much doubling. Not much musical need for two pluckers. So, anybody with more than a wild guess? David LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rather OT on the K

[LUTE] Re: mandora/gallichon music

I have the Brussells MS of mandora music Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles MS 5.619 Beautiful and affordable facsimile from Editions Culture et Civilisation (Bruxelles, 1979). Also good if you want to play some easy baroque music on guitar (for yourself or your guitar pupils!). D

[LUTE] Re: Albrechtsberger

well, better as e-h-g-d-A-G-F#-D, which is easier for G+, but sounds not well for E+. bast wishes Pietro -Messaggio originale- Da: LGS-Europe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 21 gennaio 2008 10.36 A: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Oggetto: [LUTE] Re: Albrechtsberger Oops, sorry

[LUTE] Re: Albrechtsberger

Oops, sorry to Pietro and David - I hope you are not offended by my comment. It did bring a broad smile to my face, though, which is not such a bad thing these days. Rob I was laughing out loud the full week of receiving the music, chuckling during rehearsals and smiling during the concert.

[LUTE] Re: Albrechtsberger

Is this for real? The funniest baroque music I've ever heard: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albrechtsberger-Concertos-Jews-Harp-Mandora/dp/B 05975/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 It's for real. In 2006 I had the pleasure of playing one of Albrechtsberger's concerto's for Jew's harp and Mandora. this is what

[LUTE] Re: banchieri and the Theorbo in G

Unfortunately my work it's in Italian only. It was written 12 years ago and I'm now working again on it, for a printed version. What you read is just a draft copy. Pretty good for a draft copy, I'd say. Thank you for sharing this with us. David David van Ooijen [

[LUTE] Re: recording with ZOOM H2

Well done. Nice playing in the piece from the Lochamer Liederbuch. And a nice piece it is! Is the book available somewhere? David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl - Original Message - From: "wolfgang w

[LUTE] Re: Good Friday music

Schuetz has already been mentioned, there's an a cappella Passion by him that is great, but his smaller works give much to choose that you might like. Praetorius has lots of 1/2/3/4/5/6 part music also very suitable for making your own suite or 'passion' music. Four singers and a lute are perfe

[LUTE] Re: tuner

Welcome, Howard, and thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have tuning forks in 415, 430 and 440, three tuners (the first, a programmable second, a tiny clip-on third), tell myself I should only tune by ear, but am sorely tempted by this new gadget ... David - Original Message

[LUTE] Re: Italian texts - help needed

Rob What a work, especially when you could also spend your time playing your new lute... Just some thoughts: - Alfabetto is not always in agreement with the suggested harmony (or even figures when printed) in bass and melody. - There are more ways of figuring a Kapsberger song, so writing dow

[LUTE] Re: Swanneck + loaded strings

Perhaps OT on the lute-list either way, but I mentioned Sor and Giuliani, not baroque guitar music. Neither did I write one cannot play one kind of music with or without nails, just that you may notice the differences. Well it's simply because of your pre-conditioned approach to their music. You

[LUTE] Re: transposing archlute and baroque pitch

As said: I don't really see why I should go to the considerable trouble of listing the many scholarly papers and books which have dealt with this In some usages Rome pitch was considerably higher than current A440 I wrote: This is tantalizing (assuming you're talking about 17th-century Ro

[LUTE] Re: Old lutes...

Dear Arto I find my older lutes still improving, like good wines. The young ones still have much to learn and need to grow. So don't sell your older Barbers yet, if only because they might fetch a higher price when still older! ;-) David - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[LUTE] Re: transposing archlute

o Andreas: I could play all! More on this appears in the archives of FoMRHI Quarterly. MH LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Martyn If I don't mistake what you're saying, you seem to equate the 'arciliuto romano' with an instrument pitched in E. I should

[LUTE] Re: arciliuto romana (was: New literature)

Dear Martyn If I don't mistake what you're saying, you seem to equate the 'arciliuto romano' with an instrument pitched in E. I should be grateful if you could tell me what precisely do you mean by an 'arciliuto romano' and what evidence have you that it was pitched in E? << No, no, I was

[LUTE] Re: Musical Form Analysis

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but comes close. Fuzea Editions of France has a (cheap at 17,50 euros) edition of 50 Standards of the Renaisance and Baroque eras. Theme + bass and figures. Variations of the themes and variations on the themes. Some in different keys. Very convenient f

[LUTE] Re: full text to Ave, ancilla trinitatis

Rather OT, but does anybody have for me the full text to 'Ave, ancilla trinitatis'? I have seen references to an antiphon, "Ave Maria, Ancilla Trinitatis", if the same you have more hits to peruse. Dear Dana It's almost the same, but not quite. It does help, though. Thanks. And I found a Pol

[LUTE] Re: Fronimo / pdf file question

I use pdf995 (it's for free). You can set the fonts to 'download as soft fonts'. The way I understand it is the fonts are then send with the file, and don't have to be resident in the receiving computer (but I'm sure cyberlutenists will explain better). This is how people can open my Finale fil

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

>In case someone doesn't know it, there's an enjoyable paper by Ross Duffin online: "Why I hate Valotti (or is it Young?)": http://music.cwru.edu/duffin/ Regards, Stephan How nice to be validated! Thank you so much for the above reference- great article. When I was actively messing around with

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