Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

Excellently said! I once participated in a masterclass with Robert Spencer. My lute had just travelled 100 Km in Nova Scotian winter conditions and I had just changed to my first set of gut strings. Needless to say tuning was a misery, and I suffered the embarassment of wasting considerable

Re: Historical pitch (was lute notation)

I had a related experience which is probably not unique to the way *my* brain is wired. When I was a guitarist, I could never wrap my head around playing and singing at the same time from a vocal/instrument score.. I know many pianists and guitarists who have the same difficulty. Curiously, as

Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

Segovia also said: The song of the piano is a discourse. The song of the 'cello is an elegy. But the song of the guitar is a song. (Actually, to be more correct, he said The zonk of the guitar is a zonk, but I have translated/transliterated) But what is the song of the lute? Marcus Alain

Re: Byrd

Michael Thames wrote: Auther, your tendency for misrepresentation, and exaggeration is quite obvious! I've never said lutinests were musical illiterates ... Lutine is French for fairy so presumably a lutinest is one who plays the fairy??? Marcus To get on or off this list see

Re: recorder lute

Bernd Haegemann wrote: I rather like the Concerti for Recorder and strings by John Baston. (I think there are 6 of them) Shott put out a version with the string parts in keyboard reduction which are pretty playable. It seems Baston was a recorder player and his brother was a violinist, so the

Re: FaSoLa / Shape-Note singing in New Jersey

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Re: Fine Nacks for Ladies

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Re: Historical cost of lutes.

, if they please. I'm afraid I don't know about Baron, and don't have a copy of his book to check at home. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. - Original Message - From: Michael Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcus Merrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:19 AM

Re: Fine Nacks for Ladies

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Re: Historical cost of lutes.

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Re: Fine Nacks for Ladies

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Re: Fine Nacks for Ladies

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Re: Why was the K'berg MS stolen? (Was Re: Koenigsberg Manuscript

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Book search

managed to lose all record of the order, and I'm now trying to retrace my digital steps. I can't remember the title or author, so any help greatly appreciated. Marcus -- // Marcus Merrin PhD. // EmptyAir Consulting // Linux/Unix