[VIHUELA] stringing and performance

2010-09-01 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
However his reasons for recommending the re-entrant tuning for elaborate solo music like that of Bartolotti Sanz's solo music is by far not as elaborate as Bartolotti's. Most of Sanz's pieces in the 'modern style' (not the Italianate passacalles) are charming little tunes exclusively to be pla

Fwd: Re: Vihuela stringing - CORRECTION

2005-05-17 Thread Martyn Hodgson
n Hodgson wrote: > >Not so much controversial perhaps but I'd be grateful for views on 16thC 6 >course vihuela stringing. There's some evidence that the basses were, unlike >the contemporary lute, tuned in unisons but I wonder.. > >Eph Segerman believ

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-14 Thread bill kilpatrick
i was taught that one of the major factors in bringing down the spanish empire was the hyper inflation created in spain by its monopoly of cheap, new world gold. --- Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martyn Hodgson wrote: > > > The grounds for Eph's view seems to be that only > the very

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-14 Thread Howard Posner
Martyn Hodgson wrote: > The grounds for Eph's view seems to be that only the very wealthy (ie the > 16thC Spanish) could afford firsts which had been through rigorous quality > checks (with high wastage) to ensure uniformity - we know that this was Is the underlying assumption that because there

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-14 Thread Alexander Batov
t; is the so-called Quito vihuela. There are 12 peg holes in its peg head but the bridge can only accept 11 strings. Alexander - Original Message - From: "Martyn Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 14

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-14 Thread Martyn Hodgson
son 4th course, but say nothing about the rest. If anyone has more evidence, please share it! Best wishes, Martin Martyn Hodgson wrote: > >Not so much controversial perhaps but I'd be grateful for views on 16thC 6 >course vihuela stringing. There's some evidence that the

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-13 Thread Monica Hall
Eisenhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Vihuela Net Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Vihuela stringing > > > > > As far as I know, the evidence for unison stringing is sparse, to say > > the least. John Ward's (1955) PhD thesis

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-13 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
It is supposed to be a lute. L. > What exactly is a 'vihuela de Flandes'? It only plays Josquin? > > Rob > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

RE: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-13 Thread Rob MacKillop
What exactly is a 'vihuela de Flandes'? It only plays Josquin? Rob -Original Message- From: Lex Eisenhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2005 07:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vihuela Net Subject: Re: Vihuela stringing > > As far as I know, the evidence for uni

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-12 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
> > As far as I know, the evidence for unison stringing is sparse, to say > the least. John Ward's (1955) PhD thesis makes some statement to the > effect that unisons were used and this has become established "fact", > even though I have never seen the evidence (if any) on which he based > this a

Re: Vihuela stringing

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Shepherd
27;d be grateful for views on 16thC 6 >course vihuela stringing. There's some evidence that the basses were, unlike >the contemporary lute, tuned in unisons but I wonder.. > >Eph Segerman believes it was partly because the Spanish were so very rich in &g

Vihuela stringing

2005-05-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Not so much controversial perhaps but I'd be grateful for views on 16thC 6 course vihuela stringing. There's some evidence that the basses were, unlike the contemporary lute, tuned in unisons but I wonder.. Eph Segerman believes it was partly because the Spani