[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar?

2008-01-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
on reflection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarana .. you can hear it played on the "laberinto en la guitarra" cd mentioned earlier, played by eloy cruz. - bill Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bill kilpatrick wrote: > .. don't touch it with a stick - friend of mine bought a jarana from

[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar?

2008-01-17 Thread Stuart Walsh
bill kilpatrick wrote: .. don't touch it with a stick - friend of mine bought a jarana from the same luthier and was very disappointed. What's a jarana? Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wonder what this instrument would be like? http://www.tiendaslatinas.com/centrocomercial/

[VIHUELA] Re: Baroque guitar?

2008-01-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
.. don't touch it with a stick - friend of mine bought a jarana from the same luthier and was very disappointed. Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wonder what this instrument would be like? http://www.tiendaslatinas.com/centrocomercial/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=51&products_id

[VIHUELA] Baroque guitar?

2008-01-17 Thread Stuart Walsh
I wonder what this instrument would be like? http://www.tiendaslatinas.com/centrocomercial/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=51&products_id=6447 The "vibrant string length 37 in" sounds alarming, presumably it means overall body length. To get on or off this list see list information at htt

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
Very interesting Monica - Original Message - From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:40 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC taken from here: http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm (Italian m., Spanish m., liter

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
the dolmetsch dictionary provides an explanation for "alphabeto" but doesn't have anything listed for "monody." please, what's that? ... basso continuo for 5c. guitar? No - monody is music consisting of a single melodic line. In the 17th Century Italian context it , means a solo song wit

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
taken from here: http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm (Italian m., Spanish m., literally 'alphabet') the five-course guitar, called 'the Spanish guitar' by the Italians, was probably introduced in Italy during the last quarter of the 16th-century via the Spanish dominion of Naples. The

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread wikla
Dear all pluckers, > The guitar does feature in the Florentine Intermedii. It is just possible > that it was used in Landi's opera Sant Alessio as this includes a duet for > the two humourous characters which is also included in one of Landi's song > books with alfabeto. Perhaps it is not co

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
Who played the guitar dance in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas? Well - not Corbetta as it seems that it was first performed in 1689 when he was well and truly dead. One of the ladies at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School perhaps. The interesting thing about Calisto is that Corbetta and the oth

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
the dolmetsch dictionary provides an explanation for "alphabeto" but doesn't have anything listed for "monody." please, what's that? ... basso continuo for 5c. guitar? Monica Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: Monica Hall To: Martyn Hodgson Cc: vihuelalist

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Rob
Who played the guitar dance in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas? Rob www.rmguitar.info -Original Message- From: Monica Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2008 17:04 To: Vihuelalist Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC - Original Message

[VIHUELA] Re: Robert de Visee mp3

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
Oui - charmant! Monica - Original Message - From: "Stuart Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:27 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Robert de Visee mp3 Rob wrote: A temporary upload: http://www.rmguitar.info/mp3s/BG/RdeVSuiteEm.mp3 For th

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
- Original Message - From: Monica Hall To: Martyn Hodgson Cc: vihuelalist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC Well - the short answer is no! The guitar does feature in the Florentine Intermedii. It is just po

[VIHUELA] Re: Robert de Visee mp3

2008-01-17 Thread Stuart Walsh
Rob wrote: A temporary upload: http://www.rmguitar.info/mp3s/BG/RdeVSuiteEm.mp3 For the technically minded - guitar by Alexander Batov - French tuning (diapason on D only) - French baroque pitch A=392 - almost equal temperament- Book 2, Sarabande, Menuet, Passacaille- cheap 50GBP mic straig

[VIHUELA] Re: Robert de Visee mp3

2008-01-17 Thread Rob
I felt that was too fast, so... http://www.rmguitar.info/temp.htm Rob www.rmguitar.info -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2008 12:11 To: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [VIHUELA] Robert de Visee mp3 A temporary upload: http://www.rmguitar.in

[VIHUELA] Re: Robert de Visee mp3

2008-01-17 Thread Rob
Shortly after uploading the mp3, I got an email from our friend, Timo Peedu, saying he had just finished typesetting those exact same pieces. You can now find it here: http://www.rmguitar.info/scores.htm Rob www.rmguitar.info -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Monica Hall
For some reason I didn't get your original message but for what it is worth these are my thoughts ... Lex Eisenhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is an interesting parallel to the rapid decline of alfabeto song after 1630. At about the same time the first instructions appeared for the use

[VIHUELA] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-17 Thread Martyn Hodgson
The modern use of the 'baroque' guitar in period ensembles is as much due to the frequently misguided tastes of directors/conductors, who often crave the exotic thinking that without it audiences attention will wander, as to guitarists (and harpists etc) putting themselves forward. MH Le