[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi on the lute

2008-05-16 Thread Arto Wikla
Sauvage Valéry wrote: For Arto, there is this one on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS6iuo5lvzI Hey, this is fun! ;-) Thanks! Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-16 Thread Rob MacKillop
I have uploaded to the new Lute online community a keyboard arrangement of the string parts to Vivaldi's D Major concerto for lute - useful for practising with a harpsichord. http://lutegroup.ning.com/ Rob -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi on the lute

2008-05-16 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 03:26 AM 5/16/2008, Sauvage Valéry wrote: For Arto, there is this one on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS6iuo5lvzI Ha, that worked surprisingly well! However, I'm not too keen on the accompaniment of excessive wind noise. Eugene To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-16 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 03:48 AM 5/16/2008, Mathias Rösel wrote: 'twas the hey-day of the lute in Prague, that's for sure. I doubt, however, that it was the lute which Vivaldi had in mind when he used violin clef in his score. Ask Eric, not me, he's the expert. Whatever instrument Vivaldi had in mind, I don't

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-16 Thread Arkadia Trio
- Original Message - From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LUTELIST List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:11 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo Whatever instrument Vivaldi had in mind, I don't think the treble clef was anything more than

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread wikla
I wrote My intabulation is written so that if you play it by an A-lute in renaissance tuning, you get the original key of D-major. Or if you just call your first string a, you may call the key of my arr D-major.. :-) [...] The midi versions assume a G-lute in renaissance tuning. So the

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread howard posner
On May 15, 2008, at 9:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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) and assume he intended the pitch

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread LGS-Europe
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

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread Mathias Rösel
howard posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On May 15, 2008, at 9:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 12:55 PM 5/15/2008, howard posner wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 9:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Concerto as lute solo

2008-05-15 Thread chriswilke
Mathias, --- Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Orchestra is a little misleading, since it's likely everything was one player per part. Which nevertheless qualifies as orchestra, no? How so? I don't recall ever confusing a string quartet with a small string orchestra sans