Dear Annett,
The miniature by Nicholas Hilliard is on page 55. Page 54 talks
about Henry VIII teaching all his children to play the lute. Page 55
(under the picture) mentions Elizabeth playing at Hatfield.
In haste,
Stewart McCoy.
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From: Annett Richter [EMAIL
I've had Gamut gut strings on my A lute for a week or two now,
although I haven't played them everyday. My first impression is that
they sound different from nylgut and nylon (of course) and the
overspuns especially do. In fact they sound very nice.
They are very nice for ornaments because
Dear List,
I'm boldly hoping that any of the linguists in this well-informed assembly
might take the trouble to translate this short foreword text for us:
Illustrissimo AC Reverendissimo Domino Domino Christophoro Madrucio
Cardinale ac Principe Tridenti Et administratori Briximen. Domino meo
Mathias,
(Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English). Actually, I doubt it can be called
an
Indo-European language at all because half of it is Hebrew. There is, btw,
no
Yidish word for the lute. So, what is this about? :)
Actually Hebrew (and Arabic and Aramaic) are in the family of Indo-European
Mat,
Americans are traditionally informal with people they respect, there is no
personal or formal distinction in English anymore that equates to the German
Du or the French Tu. There was once, the Thee and Thou, but that went
by the boards years ago. Yet we have a convention (more breached than
There is a Minkoff facsimile available for $US65. According to my OMI
catallgue, it is still in print, Stewart.
Julia Sutton wrote her doctoral dissertation at Boston University on the
Novus Partus, and penned an article that appeared in the very first issue
of the Journal of the Lute Society
At 8:14 PM -0600 2/11/03, Annett Richter wrote:
Dear all,
does anyone happen to own a copy of Matthew Spring's book The Lute in
Britain: A History of the Instrument and its Music (Oxford University
Press, 2001) and have handy access to it?
Our library copy of this book is checked out. I am under
Julia Sutton: 'The Lute Instructions of Jean Baptiste Besard' MQ li (1965), 345
Julia Sutton: 'The Music of J B Besard's 'Novus Partus' 1617' JAMS xix (1966), 182
Best wishes,
Rainer aus dem Spring
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In the new year I shall be giving some illustrated lectures on the
history of the lute.
I need to access some MP3 recordings of the various types of instrument
and typical repertoire.
I shall be illustrating the following:
Mediaeval, 6course ren, 8c. ren, 10 c ren, 11c Bar, 13c Bar,
At 03:54 AM 11/3/2003 -0500, Jon Murphy wrote:
Actually Hebrew (and Arabic and Aramaic) are in the family of Indo-European
languages.
Sorry, no. I speak as a former linguistics major.
Sanskrit is one of the bases, but the differences in sound of the
Semitic languages are minimal when compared
To my most illustrious and venerable lord, the lord Christophorus Madrucius,
Cardinal and Prince of Trient and adminstrator of Brescia, my most dear lord
It was an old farmers' custom, most illustrious Prince, to spend the first
fruits to those Deities who would take care for them, as was
As I
remember my linguistics only Basque and Finnish are languages west of the
Caucasian Mountains that aren't in the family.
Also Hungarian and Lappish, which along with Finnish belong to the Finno-Ugric
family. The other speakers are tribal peoples from east of the Ural
mountains.
There
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:58:30 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the new year I shall be giving some illustrated lectures on the
history of the lute.
I need to access some MP3 recordings of the various types of
instrument
and typical repertoire.
snip
Any suggestions?
You might try
Dear Stewart, Charles, and David,
thanks so much for the page numbers in Spring's book and for the URL link.
I really enjoyed the article on Hilliard on the web. The reproduction of
the painting on the website is of terrific quality.
Best,
Annett
Dear all,
As I
remember my linguistics only Basque and Finnish are languages west of the
Caucasian Mountains that aren't in the family.
Also Hungarian and Lappish, which along with Finnish belong to the Finno-Ugric
family. The other speakers are tribal peoples from east of the Ural
And do not forget the Estonians! They are even joining the EU next spring!
I nearly can understand Estonian, but not quite... :-)
Perhaps the difference is a little like between Italian and Spain?
Quite correct, my apologies to the Estonian people.
Caroline
Especially considering that
Dear lutenists,
my lute student just has chosen a new piece to study, and I just
started to teach him, when I found something very familiar in that
little piece!
The piece is Corrente fran[cese] in the Perugian MS. Libro
di Leuto / Di Gioseppe Antonio / Doni, pages 96-97.
(There is a
FROM: Roman Turovsky, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
. Previously he had been working in a garment co-op next to (and
living near) Kiev's Lutheran church in the Friedrich Engels Street (where
my father was baptized in 1933). Even earlier, in 1926 he married a lady
surnamed Saucheck (sic!),
Have any of you baroque lute players experimented with holding your
instrument with the aid of a solid table as opposed to the traditional
crossed leg method, left foot stool method, or strap method?
several strap ways, btw. I prefer a strap over my back and left shoulder,
only.
That way,
Dear all,
is there anybody who could fax me a copy (score, tabulature) of
How should I your true love know (Hamlet, IV 5)
for voice and lute or b.c.? I heard this wonderful piece on an old CD by th=
e Deller consort from 1970 with music related to Shakespeare.
Thank you.
Henner Kahlert
Fax.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Any ideas?
Even louder and more convenient would be a doctor's stethoscope attached
to the pegbox with a rubber band. I guess you'd want the type of
stethoscope with a built-in diaphragm -- but I'm no expert.
This, of course, reminds me of the
Some years ago I found an Andante-Moderato by Mozart that EASILY adopted
itself for Baroque Lute. At the time I was not in the habit of noting the
sources. Anyway, is anyone familiar with the piece (COULD BE for glass
harmonica originally, here posted in my facsimile)?:
Arthur is right.
See Kosack's dissertation page 54- and page 91.
Rainer adS
I don't disagree. I remember an inventory that had some items from JAFWeiss
as well as Reichardt, but obviously I mistook it for Kossack's.
RT
Arthur Ness (boston) wrote:
I have a copy of Kosack and will take a look.
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