McFarlane
From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cold and Raw (was Life, the universe...)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:07 -0800
Howard,
Thanks for the nice story. Maybe I was too quick on the historically
correct trigger. The song
tours, years after the recording was made.
Best wishes,
Ronn McFarlane
From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cold and Raw (was Life, the universe...)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:07 -0800
Howard,
Thanks for the nice story. Maybe I
of Purcell's most
vulgar on Art of the Bawdy Song -- the same disc with Cold Raw!).
Best regards!
Greg--
From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cold and Raw (was Life, the universe...)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:07 -0800
Greg M. Silverman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If indeed Mr. Purcell was offended that Queen Mary preferred a vulgar
ballad to one of his refined tunes, he had a lot of nerve, since he
was the author of many a vulgar ballad himself
I think Hawkins meant vulgar in the sense of common or of the
most
vulgar on Art of the Bawdy Song -- the same disc with Cold Raw!).
Best regards!
Greg--
From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cold and Raw (was Life, the universe...)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:07 -0800
Howard
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Subject: Re: Cold and Raw (was Life, the universe...)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:07 -0800
Howard,
Thanks for the nice story. Maybe I was too quick on the historically
correct trigger. The song may have been sung also by castrati with cruel
humorous effects, etc. in its 40
Combining a few in this thread. I was brought up on Scots folk music, and
have an old recording of Ewan McColl doing drinking songs of many years ago.
The Wind blew the Bonny Lassie's Plaidie Awa' , and many others. I don't
know their age, perhaps they are recent music hall songs masquerading as
David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Ah, yes, what are the things that give us versimilitude?
that was the word, thank you very much. There is actually nothing wrong
with (to repeat my points so offensive) owning tabs you cannot properly
play from, looking at, rather than playing, a lute or
Howard,
Thanks for the nice story. Maybe I was too quick on the historically
correct trigger. The song may have been sung also by castrati with cruel
humorous effects, etc. in its 40 or 50 years existence. And it's all too
easy to get reductive and apply our own stereotypes to the past.
Do you
A tempting idea!
With signs in front of the player Don't throw bones on the artists -
they give their best
Best
Thomas
Am Son, 2004-03-14 um 06.18 schrieb Jon Murphy:
Thomas,
A suggestion for a recreation, at least of the earlier early music. Have
the audience sitting at long tables for
There's a wonderful scene in Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall in which
Diane Keaton, doing her best on her first night singing in a bar, is
putting up with practically the same scenario. Perhaps all that's
needed for historical verisimilitude is for lutenists to do more bar
gigs.
Tim
On
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:01:24 -, Martin Shepherd
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But back to art. Sorry, Art. Most of the art of the past which
we admire comes from a society, and an aesthetic, radically
different from our own. We struggle, therefore, to understand it
properly (why did I
Ah, yes, what are the things that give us versimilitude? Playing for
people who are talking loud enough to be heard above the music, people
who shout at you things like, hey, how many strangs you got on that
thang?, people who turn on the radio the second you get up to take a
break, people
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To: Martin Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Life, the universe...
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:42:27 -0600
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:01:24 -, Martin Shepherd
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But back to art. Sorry, Art. Most
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Dear all,
1. In past times they could live in such conditions because they could
not compare with ours.
The living conditions in Athens three centuries BC were comparable with
the conditions in Cordoba in 950 AC, in Rome at the beginning of the XVI
century, in London in 1666, in Lisboa in
to the
subject heading, Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a little
obscure, I guess...
David Rastall
the hook, it wasn't Herbert who said that, it
was me. I was referring to something specifically related to the
subject heading, Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a little
obscure, I guess...
David Rastall
Yes - by Douglas Adams. Isn't one of the books of the Hitch-hiker
guide exactly named life the universe and everything?
Am Sam, 2004-03-13 um 15.26 schrieb bill:
hitch-hiker's guide to the universe?...
On Sabato, mar 13, 2004, at 15:03 Europe/Rome, David Rastall wrote:
Hi Jon
On Sabato, mar 13, 2004, at 17:44 Europe/Rome, Thomas Schall wrote:
How do you stage your recitals/concerts?
concert and recital would be stretching it a bit with our lot - we
sound like a bunch of middle-aged pensioners out for a day on a bus.
costumes are just part and parcel of the
Howdy David,
Must have lost track of my own towel and picked on the wrong guy g. I did
understand the subject heading, just was saying it in a subtle way (sort
of). I even have all four books of the trilogy in a single volume, and I'll
never again work with experimental mice.
Best, Jon
Thomas,
A suggestion for a recreation, at least of the earlier early music. Have
the audience sitting at long tables for dinner eating with their fingers,
dropping the bones for the dogs, and quaffing wine. Let them pay little
attention, and call for the jugglers if they don't like you. Of course
Yes - by Douglas Adams. Isn't one of the books of the Hitch-hiker
guide exactly named life the universe and everything?
Yup!
Best, Jon
Dear All,
Sorry to bother you with these ramblings, but they do relate to lute music, really...
I just got a catalogue from a company which sells reproductions of, and items inspired
by, household and personal items of the past - jewellery, vases, dressing gowns,
garden ornaments etc.
So why do we allow ourselves to be beguiled by ideas of a golden
past?
I don't. I just like the music.
well, many lutenist amateurs of my wider acquaintance do. Sporting
tablatures they cannot actually play from, owning lutes they prefer to
look at instead of sounding them, arguing about
there are many ways people are attracted by the lute.
And it's hard to tell what level one should play. As I still studied the
lute my teacher told me you should play more difficult pieces - some
weeks later a lute playing professional told me the easier the better
(actually today I think the
So why do we allow ourselves to be beguiled by ideas of a golden past?
I don't. I just like the music.
I wish this was more typical..
RT
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http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
If I may add my penny's worth. As someone from the other (Boulez, etc.) end
of the spectrum, I have enjoyed learning the lute and its music not because
it's old, because of a golden past, or anything like that, but because of my
attitude towards music. To me music is the aesthetically pleasing
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From: Thomas Schall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lautenliste [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Life, the universe...
there are many ways people are attracted by the lute.
And it's hard to tell what level one should play. As I still studied the
lute my teacher told me
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