[LUTE] Re: Ford Airs de Coeur

2012-02-25 Thread Sean Smith
Hi Tom, I don't see any replies to your question --"Have you driven a Ford discussion lately?"-- so here's what I know. He certainly doesn't figure prominently in the first string of late Elizabethan or Jacobean composers but one book of his survives: Musicke of Sundrie Kindes Set forth

[LUTE] Re: Ford Airs de Coeur

2012-02-25 Thread Christopher Stetson
Hi, to all, I don't have a source for Ford's music, alas, and agree with all that Sean said about it. However, I'm writing in my curmudgeonly persona to try to nip an understandable but bogus etymology from taking hold. To whit: the French style which Ford's songs probably

[LUTE] Re: Ford Airs de Coeur

2012-02-25 Thread Sean Smith
I always assumed it was one of those noble puns and now I can't remember which is which. Sean On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Christopher Stetson wrote: Hi, to all, I don't have a source for Ford's music, alas, and agree with all that Sean said about it. However, I'm writing in

[LUTE] Re: Ford Airs de Coeur

2012-02-26 Thread tom
> To whit: the >French style which Ford's songs probably do not represent are airs >de cour, "songs of the court", not airs de coeur, "songs of the >heart". Just sayin', that's all. What a difference one little letter can make! Yes, I see that now. "My bad." (Don't you

[LUTE] Re: Ford Airs de Coeur

2012-02-26 Thread David Smith
The Google Books is incomplete. You can purchase it at https://www.areditions.com/rr/rrb/b090.html. Regards David -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart McCoy Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:59 PM To: Lute Net Subject: