Boy, that Mary Burwell- always the life of the party! Not a big Patsy Cline fan, I hear. But every lute player should allow her spirit to sit one's shoulder, and whisper- just occasionally- in one's shell-like ear: In conclusion, the greatest error that is in playing upon the lute is to play too fast, and not to keep the time, and not to use the right fingers. Without that, play never so well, you are but a bungler and fit only to amaze the ignorant sort of people and make a fool of yourself. OK, yes Ma'am! Dan (drives & plays too fast too often, tempus uncontrollabus fuggitus maximus) On 12/20/2014 11:44 AM, Ron Andrico wrote:
Just as you say... [1][1]http://mignarda.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/saturday-morning-quote-6-ve ry-serious-advice/ RA > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:02:30 -0500 > To: [2]howardpos...@ca.rr.com > CC: [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: [4]torr...@lafayette.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: those sarabands > > All, > > Forgive me if this has already been posted, but I find it interesting that as late as Burwell, the sarabande played on the lute may be used for dancing: > > "To make people dance with the lute it is improper; it is true that a young lady may dance the saraband with her lute, and that is all." > > Thurston Dart, "Miss Mary Burwell's Instruction Book for the Lute." The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 11, (May, 1958), p. 62. > > Cheers, > Jorge Torres > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [6]http://mignarda.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/saturday-morning-quote-6-very- serious-advice/ -- References 1. http://mignarda.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/saturday-morning-quote-6-ve 2. mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com 3. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. mailto:torr...@lafayette.edu 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. http://mignarda.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/saturday-morning-quote-6-very-serious-advice/
