I believe that the word "science" has wider connotations in French than
in English.
Brad
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I forgot to mention that when the Italian reflexive is used as a
passive (as in "si incanta") it is called si passivante. This
construction can only be used with the reflexive "si".
Examples:
"Si vendono molti pesci" : Many fishes are sold.
"Qui si parla Inglese": English is
Hi David et al.,
I am not any kind of expert on Italian, but I did study it in college.
incantarsi is basically the passive (not reflexive) form of the
infinitive incantare. So, if incantare means to enchant, incantarsi
means to be enchanted. Of course I am making these comments
Fidibus illustris ille Corbetto Italus
Voce Margharitha Salicola virgo Boniensis
Venetis tam famosa theatris vicere musas.
As Monica suspected, the author of these lines seems to have been (or
was pretending to be?) somewhat incompetent in Latin, given the
standards of the
Well, Gallot wrote (if I remember correctly) a chaconne for a comet (Halley's?).
Brad
Chris Barker wrote
Good grief! A tombeau for a comet? I wonder what's going to happen next
time there's a huge volcano. Is someone going to write a piece, perhaps a
Royal Volcano Music, for such an event?
Thanks, folks, for your information about lutes in North America. It
was interesting to read of records concerning lutes in New France and
New England. I had imagined it highly unlikely that no lutes had made
it over the Altantic during the seventeenth century, but I had never
come across
Hello lute folks!
Does anyone know of any records -- references in literature, letters,
diaries, whatever, or depictions in paintings or prints -- of lutes
being played in North America during the 17th and/or 18th centuries?
Thanks,
Brad
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Hello folks,
On the weekend I recorded two pieces in a professional recording
studio. I was accompanying a singer on the theorbo. The recording
engineer aimed two mikes quite close to the body of the theorbo.
On the recording, the sound of the theorbo is very tinny and distorted,
and
Dear Lute folks,
A friend of mine wrote the following, requesting that I would forward it
to the list. If any of you can suggest any solutions to this problem,
I will forward them to him. He would of course be very grateful.
Thanks, Brad.
I have a 13 course baroque lute with a
