Re: TORBANISTICA MAY 1

2004-05-06 Thread Jon Murphy
Jon, this is really of no interest to this lutelist, and you should have kept it private. Roman, You opened it on the lutelist with unmannerly comments to me, rather than more gentle language - we continued it in private , and I would have accepted your above quoted suggestion. But in the

Re: What is Dartmouth - an idle thought

2004-05-06 Thread Jon Murphy
Wayne, Isn't the Daniel Webster quote it is a small college, but there are those who love it. And if any of Eleazer Wheelock's stash of New England rum is still around that might explain the use of the math building for climbing. Best, Jon

Re: Music and politics.

2004-05-06 Thread Jon Murphy
Given the international nature of this list, and the extreme polarization of opinions on many recent issues, I'm surprised that we haven't had more of this. Surprised, and pleased. The occasional slip into politics has to be expected, but not encouraged. (And I speak as one who has fallen into the

Re: Under this stone lies

2004-05-06 Thread Ed Durbrow
Roman, Happy to oblige: http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/UnderThisStoneLies.png - What kind of file ends in .png? What's needed to open them? -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/

Re: Unpublished lute editions

2004-05-06 Thread Anthony Hart
Dear Göran, I am currently looking at some previously unknown sonatas for lute and bass by the Sicilian Composer Antonino Reggio. Most of my time has been spent in establishing the identity of Reggio and documenting his biography. He was not a lutenist but composed some 24 sonatas for the

Re: Unpublished lute editions - Hove edition

2004-05-06 Thread Taco Walstra
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 14:52, G.R. Crona wrote: Within a few months a facsimile of Joachim van den Hove - Florida will be published by the NLV (dutch lute society) in what we decided yesterday a large bound edition for an incredible low price. More details will be send to this list later.

Re: Under this stone lies

2004-05-06 Thread Taco Walstra
On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:11, Ed Durbrow wrote: Roman, Happy to oblige: http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/UnderThisStoneLies.png - It's a graphical format (portable network graphics), you should be able to open it in applications like photoshop, gimp (free, opensource), and all

Less on politics [olim More on politics]

2004-05-06 Thread Stewart McCoy
- Original Message - From: jessica white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: More on politics Hello Guys, I see political matters are entering this list, Warmest wishes, Jessy. I for one would rather they didn't. Stewart McCoy.

Re: Less on politics [olim More on politics]

2004-05-06 Thread Anthony Hart
It's not so much the subject (I agree with Stewart, though!) but how it develops! We have got over the RT v. MO and are now getting RT v. AW!! Anthony - Original Message - From: jessica white [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: More

Re: Less on politics [olim More on politics]

2004-05-06 Thread bill
...and they just keep coming back for more!... in an effort to steer things away from comic book politics i'd like to tell you about an experience i had while singing in the chorus of madame butterfly. two years ago for the cantiere internazionale d'arte festival in montepulciano they staged

Re: Off topic, politics: there are limits!

2004-05-06 Thread Gary Digman
Dear Arto; Please rest assured that not all Americans agree with the tragic course the current administration in Washington has set us on. Unfortunately torture is no stranger to U.S. policy makers as is attested by the School of the Americas at Fort

Re: Off topic, politics: there are limits!

2004-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test -- Initial Header --- From : Gary Digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Thu, 06 May 2004 07:55:34 -0500 Subject : Re: Off topic, politics: there are limits! Dear Arto; Please

Re: Dirty songs by Henry Purcell (follow up on ColdRaw)

2004-05-06 Thread Eugene Braig
I may have missed this reference in some other post, but some of these vulgar ditties receive fine treatment at the hands of the Baltimore Consort, _The_Art_of_the_Bawdy_Song_, Dorian, DOR-90155. They're good fun. Eugene

Re: Dirty songs by Henry Purcell (follow up on ColdRaw)

2004-05-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
And Alfred Deller, even better. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org I may have missed this reference in some other post, but some of these vulgar ditties receive fine treatment at the hands of the Baltimore Consort, _The_Art_of_the_Bawdy_Song_, Dorian,

Re: Dirty songs by Henry Purcell (follow up on ColdRaw)

2004-05-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
CD though - hands down - is the Mad Buckgoat (ancient Iish music): the instrumentals are nothing short of fabulous. Oddly enough, the cover indicates that they use a bandora - including for a tune dated ca. 1840. Anyone knows if this is the average Renaissance bandora? Bandoras were

Gabriel Schebor Lutenist

2004-05-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
Gabriel's site is finally (more or less) functional: http://www.polyhymnion.org/schebor Enjoy, RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org

Re: Dirty songs by Henry Purcell (follow up on ColdRaw)

2004-05-06 Thread Eugene Braig
At 08:55 AM 05/06/2004 -0700, Alain Veylit wrote: Eugene, all, If anyone is interested, the book I was looking at yesterday has a copy of Pox on you, one of the Bawdy songs CD. The same CD has the version of Cold and Raw mentioned a couple of weeks ago. My favorite Baltimore Consort CD though -

Re: Off topic, politics: there are limits!

2004-05-06 Thread Vance Wood
Hi Arto: You expressed in your original post on this subject that if we disagreed don't respond. I find it interesting that you continue to post these political statements, and you post them here, but don't want any responsible alternate points of view. You were right in the beginning, this

Re: Shape note

2004-05-06 Thread Alain Veylit
In view of a recent discussion: There is a fairly extensive discussion of shape note singing by the Anonymous 4 (with musical examples) on the NPR WEB site at http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1834026 under the Listen to Anonymous 4 Live link. You'll need a reasonably fast Internet

Re: Shape note

2004-05-06 Thread Thomas Schall
Just a question: does shape note singing has anything to do with what we in germany call Obertonsingen? Sorry - I simply don't understand what this thread is about ... Thomas Am Don, 2004-05-06 um 23.13 schrieb Alain Veylit: In view of a recent discussion: There is a fairly extensive

Re: Shape note

2004-05-06 Thread Alain Veylit
Thomas, Not being at all a specialist myself, it seems that the music is notated with shapes: I think G is a circle, for instance. BTW, the NPR archives have many interesting links, for instance a one hour interview with Hop. Smith on the vihuela at http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/4a/smith.html

Re: Re: Under this stone lies

2004-05-06 Thread arckon
VuePrint, whcih can be downloaded as shareware, will open the *.png files, and convert them to a anumber of other graphics formats, like jpg or gif. If anyone would like me to convert and send an attachment (privately, of course) let me know. Leonard Williams

Re: Re: Under this stone lies

2004-05-06 Thread Alain Veylit
For Roman, and others potentially interested in male polyphony, I have converted the png files to gif and collected the images on one html page at : http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/Catches/catches.html The source is a many times reprinted collection entitled: The pleasant musical

Re: Shape note

2004-05-06 Thread Arthur Ness (boston)
Dear Thomas, As far as I know Shape Note notation and singing is an American invention from around 1800, and was used primarily in singing hymns (particularly in southern and midwestern churches). The earliest sytem has four syllables, Fa, Sol, La, Mi, and is sometimes called Fasola. Now an F

Re: Under this stone lies

2004-05-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
Much obliged RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 15:20:24 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED], LUTE-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Under this stone lies For Roman,