I believe that the story comes from this quotation:
'Inigo Jones first brought the theorbo to England c.ann.1605. At Dover it
was thought some engine brought from Popish countries to destroy the King,
and he had it sent up to the Council Table'.
It comes from Dr Plume's Library, Malden,
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From: Peter W Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:07 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps
Be prepared for a rather baffling description:
For my 8-course lute, I use just a longish length of broad ribbon which I
bought for about 50p
I shall be practising for a concert that I and a friend are giving on the
19th of Francesco and Matelart duets (among other things). I didn't realise
that his birthday was on the 18th, but I shall make sure that I mention it
to the audience.
The concert is taking place in Sandford in Devon in
Does anyone have a copy of the Hagen Locatelli Variations that they could
e-mail me? A great piece, and although I don't have a D-min lute, I would
quite like to have a look at the music.
Thanks,
Peter
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I know that there was a thread on recording with a laptop/notebook a while
ago, but I have now got it into my head that I would like to have a go at
recording myself to see quite how terrible it sounds when sitting on the
other side of the instrument...
I've downloaded Audacity, which seems
I have referred David off-list to Bob Spencer's essay which accompanies
Jakob Lindberg's recording of the complete Vivaldi lute works on BIS, but I
recommend the article to you all as well. Spencer argues pretty
convincingly for the use of the arciliuto, summing up:
From about 1614 in Italy
It's good - very strange, but good. But not as good as this other sung
history lesson - a pianistic paen to my country's only (and thankfully
short-lived) dalliance with republicanism performed by our nation's most
famous sons:
http://www.sbac.edu/~palmergw/Olivercromwell.mp3
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A quick survey of the Naxos Music Library reveals that on the very recently
released Naxos recording of the Matthew Passion (8.557617-19) the Komm
suesses Kreuz is performed with lute obbligato alongside bass Hann
Mueller-Brachmann. I'm not sure who the lutenist is, but it sounds good,
Did Elizabeth play the lute? Well, Nicholas Hilliard, the tudor minaturist
and famous son of my home town, Exeter, painted this tiny potrait of Bess
with a lute in c.1580:
http://www.marileecody.com/gloriana/elizabethlute.jpg
She's playing a little closer to the rose that I usually do in the
Dear ether,
Sorry about the late notice, but my regular sparring partner and I are meeting
up tomorrow for a duetting session. I've got loads of duets for equal lutes,
but I would like to take along some tone-apart duets that we can play on my
G-lute and his A-lute.
Given that it is the
Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris have made modern copies of historical cases.
You can see photos on the first page of their website, about halfway down:
www.lutesandguitars.co.uk.
They say:
Ruefully, it has to be admitted that, although making such a case - similar
to those seen in many 16th
A rather inauspicious start - sorry about the random blank e-mail. I'll try
again
Hello everyone,
Long time listener, first time caller (as the phrase goes). My name is
Peter and I am a student of Jakob Lindberg here in sunny old England.
Does anyone have an arrangement for
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