[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Plainte - Weiss

[Roman Turovsky]

Check the archives. SLW's addiction was discussed here a couple of years 
ago.
RT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Crouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:37 AM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Plainte - Weiss


> Are you suggesting "la grande Noblesse" was a ship?
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> Eric Crouch
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> On 6 Sep 2007, at 12:56, Roman Turovsky wrote:
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>> A shipment of tea. SLW was addicted to the leaf. Seriously.
>> RT
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Crouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:52 AM
>> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Plainte - Weiss
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>>> In the Ruggero Chiesa transcription of the Weiss London
>>> Manuscript,  the piece entitled "Plainte" is accompanied by the
>>> following text  (presumably taken from the manuscript):
>>>> "Plainte de Monsieur Weiss sur la generosite de la grande
>>>> Noblesse  au cap de bonne esperance, en attendant la flotille
>>>> d'or de leur  promesse."
>>> Can anyone clarify what this means? My schoolboy knowledge of
>>> French  leads me to think that Weiss is complaining about someone
>>> who hasn't  paid him; my French speaking daughter comments on what
>>> seems to be  nautical imagery - "cap de bonne esperance" and
>>> "flotille", though  she is puzzled that the former is not
>>> capitalised and also by the use  of "grand Noblesse", rather than
>>> "haut Noblesse" if the nobility is  being referred to.
>>> What is Weiss alluding to?
>>> Eric Crouch
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