[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-03 Thread Adam Olsen
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:06 PM, wrote: Tom, It seems the link in your signature no longer works (http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html). Just a heads up. > > Tom Draughon > Heartistry Music > http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html > 714  9th Avenue West > Ashland, WI  54806 > 715-682

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-03 Thread tom
ve said, where there was only > a lute in a household, surely that could have been used? - > Mail original - De : Ed Durbrow <[4]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> > A : LuteNet list <[5]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Cc : Envoye le : > Jeudi 2 fevrier 201

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread Christopher Stetson
A : LuteNet list <[5]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Cc : Envoye le : Jeudi 2 fevrier 2012 6h08 Objet : [LUTE] Re: Some history questions A recent Lute News had an article about this very issue. They looked into some statistics about how many instruments households had and

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread Anthony Hind
original - De : Ed Durbrow À : LuteNet list Cc : Envoyé le : Jeudi 2 février 2012 6h08 Objet : [LUTE] Re: Some history questions   A recent Lute News had an article about this very issue. They looked   into some statistics about how many instruments households had and made   the proposition

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Mathias Rösel wrote: >>    >Puritan? 1670s? With that Unreconstructed Good Time Boy Charles II >>    back on the throne since 1660? I don't think so! Besides 'Puritanism' >>    is a much misunderstood concept, thanks to >the 19th century. > > IIRC the initial questi

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread Mathias Rösel
>>Puritan? 1670s? With that Unreconstructed Good Time Boy Charles II >back on the throne since 1660? I don't think so! Besides 'Puritanism' >is a much misunderstood concept, thanks to >the 19th century. IIRC the initial question was about the probability of baroque lute music being pla

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread William Samson
>Puritan? 1670s? With that Unreconstructed Good Time Boy Charles II back on the throne since 1660? I don't think so! Besides 'Puritanism' is a much misunderstood concept, thanks to >the 19th century. Sure - The Merry Monarch was indeed back on the throne, but I strongly suspect tha

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-02 Thread research
" modest and sober??" I thought you can North of the border! Best wishes Tony Hart (we met several times at the Lute Society Summer schools in York and Cheltenham - Last century!!) >Going back to the sources, the Mary Burwell lute book (about 1670) says >in chapter 16 > >. . . . > >

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Ed Durbrow
A recent Lute News had an article about this very issue. They looked into some statistics about how many instruments households had and made the proposition that if there was only a lute available and people wanted to dance, they would have danced to the lute. I think trends change

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread howard posner
On Feb 1, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > Consider that EGBaron, a journeyman lute personality, considered himself > nothing less that an Orpheus. And you can only imagine SLW's opinion of > himself. > And that is the mindset of the whole lutenism, an entirely apollinian culture. Even

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
ryer" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:55 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some history questions On 01/02/2012 6:08 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: Would baroque lute music have been played during a ball or masquerade? I often imagine it when I listen to the music, but it occurred to me that th

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Stephen Fryer
On 01/02/2012 6:08 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: Would baroque lute music have been played during a ball or masquerade? I often imagine it when I listen to the music, but it occurred to me that the lute may have been too quiet for it. While I can't speak directly for Baroque lute, certainly in the Re

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Adam Olsen
Ok, no dancing. Noted, thank you :-) On Feb 1, 2012 7:19 PM, "Roman Turovsky" <[1]r.turov...@verizon.net> wrote: No. It is an unstrument of private supplication. RT - Original Message - From: "Adam Olsen" <[2]arol...@gmail.com> To: <[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
meant INstrument.. - Original Message - From: "Roman Turovsky" To: "Adam Olsen" ; Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:19 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some history questions No. It is an unstrument of private supplication. RT - Original Message - From: &quo

[LUTE] Re: Some history questions

2012-02-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
No. It is an unstrument of private supplication. RT - Original Message - From: "Adam Olsen" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:08 PM Subject: [LUTE] Some history questions Hi folks, I'm new around here, so forgive me if this is too simple a question. Would baroque lute musi