[LUTE] Double headed 12c

2008-05-30 Thread Mathias Rösel
Dear Collected Wisdom, is there someone on the list who is willing to share their experiences with double headed 12c lutes and related repertoire? I'm just about to enter that flowery meadow. What I'm interested in is - choice: What made you choose that type of lute (that luthier)? -

[LUTE] Just a test

2008-05-30 Thread Bruce O. Bowes
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[LUTE] Vimeo Lutes and Early Guitars Video Channel

2008-05-30 Thread Rob MacKillop
With more people appreciating the audio and visual quality of the Vimeo site over YouTube, I've created a Vimeo Channel - one page bringing together all the Vimeo videos with lutes and early guitars. I urge all those of us who have videos to upload them to Vimeo, then inform me and I'll link them

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Vimeo Lutes and Early Guitars Video Channel

2008-05-30 Thread Rob MacKillop
With more people appreciating the audio and visual quality of the Vimeo site over YouTube, I've created a Vimeo Channel - one page bringing together all the Vimeo videos with lutes and early guitars. I urge all those of us who have videos to upload them to Vimeo, then inform me and I'll link them

[LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c

2008-05-30 Thread Edward Martin
Dear Mathias, No, I have not gone in that direction. There seems to be relatively new interest in the topic, as Paul Beier is going to record a CD of music of Reusner on 12 course. Just yesterday, I received a new CD by Anthony Bailes.. Old Gaultiers Nigtinghall. He plays a small Frei,

[LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c

2008-05-30 Thread Rob MacKillop
I used to have a 12c. You can see it on David Van Edwards' site. I bought it second hand, so had no choice in model, woods, measurements etc. My understanding is that the larger instruments work better. I didn't have it long enough to get into the specific repertoire for it, and to be honest, the

[LUTE] Re: what are underlights ...

2008-05-30 Thread Doctor Oakroot
What about Aurora Borealis? Was Campion far enough north to see it? .. in Thomas Campion's lute song Author of Light? Sun and moon, stars and underlights I see, but all their glorious beams are mists and darkness being compar'd to thee. The OED is not really helpfull, suggestion

[LUTE] Lute Performances

2008-05-30 Thread Narada
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[LUTE] Re: what are underlights ...

2008-05-30 Thread wikla
I would suggest underlights are the planets and perhaps also the Moon (and Sun?). In the world picture of those days all the stars were attached to the same, uppermost chrystal sphere, each planet had its own chrystal sphere, which were also lower, nearer to the center of the universe, our

[LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c

2008-05-30 Thread Are Vidar Boye Hansen
Hi Mathias, Edward and the rest of you, you might find this article interesting: http://www.tabulatura.com/Mestweb.htm I wonder how common these small baroque lutes were... Are Dear Mathias, No, I have not gone in that direction. There seems to be relatively new interest in the topic,

[LUTE] Re: what are underlights ...

2008-05-30 Thread wikla
Hi lutenists, just in case someone thinks I am a madman, when writing about the world picture of the composers of our lute music, as I did (see below), I would like to add something. My list of heavens (should it be spheres?) is taken from the preface of one edition of Dante's Divina Comedia,

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Following up - does one need to play to be a good builder?

2008-05-30 Thread Timothy Motz
Ehud, I'm afraid I disagree with Jon. Considering that even a cheap lute of the southeast Asian variety is now running $400-500, buying one sounds like an expensive way to learn what not to do. I think that, even buying tuning pegs, materials for the lutes I've built cost under $200;

[LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c

2008-05-30 Thread Edward Martin
Thanks, Are. I will read it. But, Bailes' lute is not THAT small. ed At 07:22 PM 5/30/2008 +0200, Are Vidar Boye Hansen wrote: Hi Mathias, Edward and the rest of you, you might find this article interesting: http://www.tabulatura.com/Mestweb.htm I wonder how common these small baroque

[LUTE] Re: what are underlights ...

2008-05-30 Thread David Tayler
I think that in a specific way, it refers to the many types of diagrams showing the celestial order, many of which are reprinted in the untuning of the Sky by John Hollander, and obtusely referenced in Spitzer's classic text, Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony. In a general sense,

[LUTE] Re: Lute songs

2008-05-30 Thread David Tayler
Lutes have dynamics to my ear. When I practice, I play the same passage a different volume levels. Lutes can also say the words, but this is difficult to describe, though easy to demonstrate. Normally I start by memorizing the poem, then reciting using rhetoric, then I practice making the

[LUTE] Re: Vimeo Lutes and Early Guitars Video Channel

2008-05-30 Thread David Tayler
Thanks Rob dt At 04:45 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote: With more people appreciating the audio and visual quality of the Vimeo site over YouTube, I've created a Vimeo Channel - one page bringing together all the Vimeo videos with lutes and early guitars. I urge all those of us who have videos to upload

[LUTE] Re: Lute songs

2008-05-30 Thread Sean Smith
My lute awake! ... indeed, its purpose is to accompany the poem with its own rhetorical counterpoint. David speaks a fundamental truth here and we, as the lute, should have a thorough feel of the poem and purpose as well as the poet's, composer's and musician's artistry. A song --especially

[LUTE] Re: what are underlights ...

2008-05-30 Thread wikla
On 5/31/2008, LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Elizabehan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard (I happen to have a Pelican from 1943, but there must be more modern editions) Yep, mine is reprint of 1984, at least 14th reprint, ISBN 0-14-021484-4. Arto To get on or off this list see