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2005-02-27 Thread Rob MacKillop
Matanya has now left the list. It is not a question of who is right or who is wrong. It is a matter of sharing. That concept is clearly lost on some people. Sad. Rob To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
>>> You implied in your previous message that the letter stated that the >>> quintets were _performed_ in the marquis' house, in order to show that my >>> statement about a first performance in 1926 in Germany is not tenable. Now >>> you say that LB said that the quintets were written for the sole

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Matanya Ophee
At 07:45 AM 2/27/2005, Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You implied in your previous message that the letter stated that the > > quintets were _performed_ in the marquis' house, in order to show that my > > statement about a first performance in 1926 in Germany is not tenable. Now > >

Re: Air on the G string?

2005-02-27 Thread Stanley Yates
- Original Message - From: "Lex Eisenhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stanley Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Air on the G string? > You would not suggest to change the stringing for the tonality, I presume? > Lex ! To get on or off

Guitars and meantone

2005-02-27 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Dear all, is anyone aware of evidence or hints for something like 55-edo-tuning, or in other words for something like a 1/6-pythagorean-comma meantone tuning for 18th century guitars? Instructions, paintings, body frets on surviving instruments? It's supposed to be the usual tuning for non-keyb

Re: Air on one or other string of a course?

2005-02-27 Thread Stanley Yates
Thanks for this information Monica - more food for thought. Stanley To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Air on one or other string of a course?

2005-02-27 Thread Monica Hall
Air on one or other string of a course? > Yet, as far as I know, there is no single statement to be found among the > perfromance practice sources of the period that discusses the modern concept > of differentiated plucking on an octave-strung course. There is a rather later (i.e. second half of

Re: Baroque guitar pdf files?

2005-02-27 Thread Monica Hall
There may be a bit of a problem about this as neither Fronimo nor Django support some essential features of baroque guitar tablature - in particular strumming. Alain Veylit was working on this problem with Django but I don't know if he ever finally sorted it. I had an enormous problem preparing ev

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
>>> That's Benavent, without an e at the end. However, I would be delighted to >>> stand corrected here, if you could supply the full quotation, and the >>> precise source for it. Have no fear, I have the entire available literature >>> on Boccherini right here in my house. I may have missed someth