[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-07 Thread howard posner
On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Mark Seifert seifertm...@att.net wrote: Are you a piano player as well as a lute enthusiast? No, and my guitarist's repertoire of derogatory comments about the piano is now used only to annoy my keyboard-playing wife. There's an upright piano and a Flemish

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-07 Thread howard posner
On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Mark Seifert seifertm...@att.net wrote: I think it was Greenberg who said in his Bach course that Bach didn't like Silbermann's pianos, though he loved Silbermann's organs and harpsichords. Bach was the heaviest hitter I could think of for help in

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-06 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Mark Seifert seifertm...@att.net wrote: Dear Sirs, I remember reading that Hoppy Smith encountered severe difficulty studying music theory because he did not play keyboard, but toughed it out and succeeded. I dropped out of Music Theory 2 freshman year

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-05 Thread Martyn Hodgson
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk To: Stephen Kenyon s...@jacaranda-music.com Sent: Monday, 5 August 2013, 7:12 Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams) Dear Stephen Kenyon, Whilst I can see, and agree, with much of your

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-05 Thread Mark Seifert
plastic piano provided to the kids. Are you a piano player as well as a lute enthusiast? Mark Seifert From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com To: lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2013 9:54 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-04 Thread Stephen Kenyon
Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in my view. The pianist is expected to assess all other instruments, not just guitars, and one important reason for it is that part of the exam assessment consists of aural test which have to be played competently on a

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-04 Thread William Samson
chriswi...@yahoo.com; Mark Seifert seifertm...@att.net; gary magg...@sonic.net; lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 12:12 Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams) Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-04 Thread Mark Seifert
magg...@sonic.net; lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2013 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams) Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in my view. The pianist is expected to assess all

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-04 Thread Stephen Kenyon
...@att.net; gary magg...@sonic.net; lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 12:12 Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams) Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in my view. The pianist is expected

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)

2013-08-04 Thread howard posner
On Aug 4, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Mark Seifert seifertm...@att.net wrote: Why the piano chauvinism in modern music? I don't like piano (except maybe Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Hummel, Schumann, Tim Story) You might want to check out this dude named Beethoven. Bach firmly rejected the