[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute 2009

2010-01-22 Thread Suzanne Einstoss Rapoport
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute 2010 Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Ivars Taurins, Director, Chamber Choir JUNE 6 19, 2010 at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto Ontario, Canada. The Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute is an intensive 14-day residency in baroque

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Anyone know about Hoppy Documentary

2010-01-22 Thread Oskar De Mari
hi all, has anyone heard of a Hoppy Smith documentary? I read about it in a bio of Miguel Yisrael. Oskar __ Sell your old one fast! [1]Time for a new car? -- References 1.

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke - 'lute stop' evidence

2010-01-22 Thread Martyn Hodgson
The buff stop (also found on other schools of harpsichords) does not have 'the opposite effect' to the 'lute' stop: it is simply a damping mechanism (akin to the modern damping tecgnique on the guitar in which the fleshy outside edge of the right hand touches, and hence damps, the

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke - 'lute stop' evidence

2010-01-22 Thread chriswilke
Howard, --- On Thu, 1/21/10, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: But I agree with Andrew (if indeed he meant to make this point) that it's a mistake to extrapolate lute tone from the names of harpsichord stops, as the opposite conclusions you could draw from the English lute stop

[LUTE] Re: Help with LH fingering

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Stetson
Hi, all, I agree, a great link to the Capirola translation. Just a note -- the LH thumb technique mentioned has only recently been universally frowned on in the classical guitar world, and primarily since the Segovia revolution (I know -- here he goes again!). For one

[LUTE] Re: Help with LH fingering

2010-01-22 Thread Martin Eastwell
I've always played this Capirola passage with my thumb stopping the Bb on course 6. Also some passages in Newsidler and Francesco da Milano. As Stephen says, it is a question of having the right 6 course, as this technique is only possible on a narrow neck. Most modern makers who produce copies

[LUTE] Re: Help with LH fingering

2010-01-22 Thread David Tayler
I play the B flat chord striking the D only on the octave string of the 5th course, or I play it as writ on a smaller lute dt At 06:24 PM 1/20/2010, you wrote: I've been working on Capirola's Baleto da balar bello. The middle section has some simple looking but tricky chord shifts which I've

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke - 'lute stop' evidence

2010-01-22 Thread David Tayler
Or they thought lute players were damp. Of course in German, that might mean steamy. dt At 06:35 AM 1/21/2010, you wrote: To add to the confusion: 17th c. harpsichord makers added another feature called a buff stop that had the opposite effect - it pressed leather pads against the strings to

[LUTE] Kapsperger

2010-01-22 Thread Bruno Correia
Does anyone in the list have this article: Victor Coelho, G.G. Kapsberger in Rome, 16041645: New Biographical Data.103. It belongs to LSA Volume XVI (1983). I would really appreciate if someone could scan and send it to me. I have been trying to buy it from the LSA but didn't