[LUTE] Re: Tablature Fonts for Mac

2008-10-07 Thread Eric Crouch
. Also, thinking about freely available fonts, have you looked at Apple Chancery, Comic Sans, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Blackletter, Bradley Hand, or Skia? Eric Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7 Oct 2008, at 10:26, Doc Rossi wrote: Has anyone got any suggestions for nice-looking French tablature

[LUTE] Re: John Wilson Preludes

2008-10-06 Thread Eric Crouch
from transcribing some of them for guitar) is the point made by Arthur Ness that the published facsimile is so difficult to read. In transcribing I have incorporated the corrections made by Matthew Spring in his grand staff edition. Eric Crouch On 6 Oct 2008, at 20:29, Greet Schamp

[LUTE] Re: more general scams

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Crouch
-slayer.com/ups-malware.shtml; Try it and see Eric Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12 Aug 2008, at 17:16, Anthony Hind wrote: This is not the same issue, but like many of you, no doubt, I have received several offers to share with a Nigerian banker the profits of a person who has

[LUTE] Re: Piccinini

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Crouch
(N 1861). Eric Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18 Jun 2008, at 21:09, Peter Nightingale wrote: Dear All, Does anyone have or know where I can find a translation of the introduction to Alessandro Piccinini's Intavolatvra ... Libro Primo? Peter. the next auto-quote is: The human mind evolved

[LUTE] Re: Pilkington, for lute viol

2008-04-02 Thread Eric Crouch
The bass viol part for this piece doubles the bass line of the lute part! Eric Crouch On 2 Apr 2008, at 17:32, Bernd Haegemann wrote: Hi! http://www.gerbode.net/ft2/composers/Pilkington/pdf/pavan_for_lute_and_viol.pdf sounds promising, but where is the viol part? best wishes Bernd

[LUTE] Re: recording with ZOOM H2

2008-01-13 Thread Eric Crouch
In Safari, click on the link above the files that says 'Listen'. It plays the three tracks in order. The sound is very impressive! Eric Crouch On 13 Jan 2008, at 21:33, Gernot Hilger wrote: Ed, this is a non-Mac site. I tried all my browsers to no avail. Sorry! g On 13.01.2008, at 16:52

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Burwell

2007-12-16 Thread Eric Crouch
AFAIK Ruxbery publications (aka RecorderMail, and some other aliases too, I think) are a print to order outfit, so they should be able to do anything that's in their catalogue - if Severinus have transferred the Burwell to them they should be able to print it. Eric Crouch On 16 Dec 2007

[LUTE] Re: Are there any Harmony Assistant users here making lute tab?

2007-11-19 Thread Eric Crouch
Ah, thanks, I hadn't spotted that. Eric Crouch PS Apologies, that last email was meant to go to the list, but I seem to have sent it direct instead! On 19 Nov 2007, at 08:13, Ed Durbrow wrote: You go to the Preferences and click on Fonts then Tablature notes. On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:38 PM

[LUTE] Re: Lute concert

2007-09-25 Thread Eric Crouch
, it was very easy to hear everything he did in that setting - though having heard both Hopkinson Smith and Jakob Lindberg at Lute Society meetings recently, I think AR's volume tends more towards the first rather than the second. Eric Crouch On 25 Sep 2007, at 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED

[LUTE] Re: Nigel on YouTube

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Crouch
Can anyone explain the meaning of the title 'Solus cum Sola' and the next piece in Poulton 'Solus sine Sola'? Eric Crouch On 18 Jul 2007, at 22:47, Jim Abraham wrote: The longer one is Solus cum sola, Poulton #10. On 7/18/07, Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may have been

[LUTE] Re: Nigel on YouTube

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Crouch
on the title of another piece, John Danyel's wonderful set of variations 'Mistress Ann Grene, her leaves bee Grene' Eric Crouch On 19 Jul 2007, at 10:20, Charles Browne wrote: The Lute Society Newsletter for December 2003 (no 68) has an article by Christopher Goodwin on some recent Dowland

[LUTE] Re: Greensleeves - Poulton

2007-06-04 Thread Eric Crouch
My very old copy of the Diana Poulton tutor gives it as the version from the William Ballet Lute MS and I assume it to be a faithful transcription. Eric Crouch On 4 Jun 2007, at 11:34, Stephen Kenyon wrote: Me again again. Does the Greensleeves version from Diano Poulton's lute tutor

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Chaconne for Harlequin

2007-05-11 Thread Eric Crouch
Arthur, Do you mean this piece http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tom/ Chaconne_dXArlequin.mp3 ? As far as I know Chris Wilke is right and it is a Lully/de Visee theorbo work from the Saizenay MS. Eric Crouch On 11 May 2007, at 12:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arthur

[LUTE] Re: jane pickering MS

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Crouch
address, they seem to be the same people as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (again judging by the postal address). Easiest to give them a ring on +44 (0) 1422 882751, as they don't seem to be very communicative otherwise. Eric Crouch On 11 Dec 2006, at 09:30, LGS-Europe wrote: - has Jane Pickeringe's MS been

[LUTE] Re: strings: direction of vibration?

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Crouch
to this account the flexible waist tends to absorb the longitudinal vibrations and the foot to transmit the vertical vibrations. Eric Crouch On 28 Aug 2006, at 11:42, Charles Browne wrote: The following link to the proceedings of a 1983 conference of Swedish guitar makers is quite interesting

[LUTE] Re: Turkish Lute Music?

2006-08-21 Thread Eric Crouch
On 20 Aug 2006, at 23:10, Roman Turovsky wrote: Note that SLW's title is feminine. RT Can anyone develop that point - is it possible the title 'L'Infidele' also connotes another meaning of the word? Eric Crouch -- To get on or off this list see list information at http

[LUTE] Re: Naming of Weiss Suites

2006-08-21 Thread Eric Crouch
On 21 Aug 2006, at 08:26, Eric Crouch wrote: On 20 Aug 2006, at 23:10, Roman Turovsky wrote: Note that SLW's title is feminine. RT Can anyone develop that point - is it possible the title 'L'Infidele' also connotes another meaning of the word? Ah, I see it's been answered already. More

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Crouch
-mondegreen-buttocks-pressing- song_15.html Eric Crouch On 22 May 2006, at 18:08, Stewart McCoy wrote: This afternoon I was sent this little bit of nonsense, which I pass on, with the hope that some might find it amusing. Stewart McCoy. -o-O-o- The following appeared in Early Music Review

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Crouch
Sorry, seem to have got the link wrong: http://witf.blogspot.com/2005/03/lady-mondegreen-buttocks-pressing- song_15.html EC (ps, if it comes out wrong again, try closing up any spaces that arise from the address going over two lines) Begin forwarded message: From: Eric Crouch [EMAIL

[LUTE] Re: tablature

2006-04-10 Thread Eric Crouch
What format have you got the tablature in? If it is in Fronimo or Django files, the task is straightforward. If on paper then it is (imho) fairly laborious transcribing to notation. Eric Crouch On 10 Apr 2006, at 09:27, bernardo gui wrote: dear list members, for a forthcoming recording

[LUTE] Re: the lute number by the Shadows

2006-01-27 Thread Eric Crouch
There's someone in Norway who obviously decided it would be a service to humanity to make MIDI files of all the Shadows tunes ;-) Have a look here: http://home.online.no/~gunnar-a/eng.htm Eric Crouch On 27 Jan 2006, at 15:30, LGS-Europe wrote: Does anybody have some info on The Lute Number

[LUTE] Re: Surviving in Eliz. England.

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Crouch
there was such a variety of accent in Elizabethan England that a time traveller returning there (providing [s]he avoided anachronisms) would merely be regarded as outlandish (in the Elizabethan sense of course). Eric Crouch On 12 Jan 2006, at 22:42, Nelson, Jocelyn wrote: Some communities

[LUTE] Re: Surviving in Eliz. England.

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Crouch
dialect. Eric Crouch On 13 Jan 2006, at 03:17, guy_and_liz Smith wrote: I'm sure Elizabethan England had many local dialects, just as it does today. But most countries have something that's considered the nominal standard dialect. IIRC, she was referring specifically to the accent

[LUTE] Re: Surviving in Eliz. England.

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Crouch
French than the English of the Northern and North Midland counties of England which showed strong influence from Scandinavian languages. Eric Crouch On 13 Jan 2006, at 03:31, Peter Oljelund wrote: Hello Everyone Interesting subject! I found this text on the internet: Elizabethian English

[LUTE] Re: Surviving in Eliz. England.

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Crouch
It's still possible to hear people who say th'art for you are in South and West Yorkshire. Eric Crouch On 13 Jan 2006, at 18:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/13/06 10:11:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I keep hearing that bit about people who still speak Elizabethan

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-03 Thread Eric Crouch
of music is reflected in research from a music teacher in this country (UK) which purported to show that playing Mozart to school pupils increased their capacity to learn. Presumably lute fantasies would have an even stronger effect :-) Eric Crouch On 3 Jan 2006, at 05:35, Daniel F Heiman

[LUTE] Re: Piccinini

2005-11-13 Thread Eric Crouch
Begin forwarded message: From: Eric Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 November 2005 15:30:11 GMT To: dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LUTE] Piccinini You can find it here: http://www.gerbode.net/ft2/composers/ Piccinini/ Eric Crouch On 12 Nov 2005, at 20:08, dc wrote: Where

[LUTE] Re: Repetitive Stress Syndrome

2005-11-02 Thread Eric Crouch
Have you thought about left hand mousing on the computer? I switched for similar reasons and found it very helpful. Anyone who can do lute left hand fingering should have no problems learning to use a mouse left handed. Eric Crouch On 2 Nov 2005, at 18:46, Craig Allen wrote: Lately my

[LUTE] Re: Gastric distress (gut)

2005-10-28 Thread Eric Crouch
style is something that only really developed during the 20th century. Richard Taruskin makes the more radical point that 'historically informed performance' is, in fact, a modern style. A book worth reading , even if only to disagree with some of it! Eric Crouch On 28 Oct 2005, at 09:58

[LUTE] Re: Are theorbists(sp) really so popular?

2005-10-19 Thread Eric Crouch
to admit that the bass notes of the theorbo sounding through a baroque ensemble seem to me among the most beautiful sounds in the whole of music. Maybe that's theorbists are popular? (And I name David Miller, Linda Sayce and William Carter as the players who have this effect on me!) Eric Crouch

[LUTE] Re: Unquiet Thoughts

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Crouch
Ah, but is it a performance at all, as it is presumably MIDI generated from the Lilypond file? [Only musicologists to answer this :-) ] Eric Crouch lute@cs.dartmouth.edu On 14 Sep 2005, at 16:19, Stewart McCoy wrote: Dear All, If you would like to hear an execrable performance of Dowland's

[LUTE] Re: Unquiet Thoughts

2005-09-14 Thread Eric Crouch
McCoy wrote: Dear Eric, Let's not split hairs. You need to listen at least halfway through the MIDI file, to appreciate fully that someone lacks a certain musicological nous. Dowland must be turning in his grave. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. - Original Message - From: Eric Crouch

[LUTE] Re: Guitar and lute

2005-09-01 Thread Eric Crouch
'Play' . You may or may not like the interpretation, but as a live concert piece, in amongst other pieces from this CD, it was a stunning musical experience. (OK, so that's renaissance music but the point still holds.) Eric Crouch Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes. == http

[LUTE] Re: Guitar and lute

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Crouch
No, I'm wrong - Scheit did no. 11 too! EC On 31 Aug 2005, at 18:32, Eric Crouch wrote: I suppose we're straying a bit off lute topics again, but Karl Scheit arranged the de Visee C minor suite both for modern guitar and for guitar and recorder/flute in the early 70's and I have come across

[LUTE] Re: John Wilson Preludes

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Crouch
they do contain some editorial alterations. These are explained in his preface but, in view of the particular nature of these pieces, players may not agree with them all. So far I have transcribed the originals faithfully (apart from making careless errors along the way!) Eric Crouch On 15

[LUTE] John Wilson Preludes

2005-08-14 Thread Eric Crouch
that reproduces the MS as faithfully as I can manage using Sibelius. (The note values are in fact halved for reasons to do with what Sibelius can and can't display.) I hope to post Prelude 4 shortly and I will check back to make sure that 1 and 2 are correct. Eric Crouch To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-08 Thread Eric Crouch
! =EF=BF=BC Eric Crouch On 7 Aug 2005, at 20:46, Howard Posner wrote: Eric Crouch wrote: 2) Someone repeated the belief commonly held among guitarists that Beethoven wrote Moonlight Sonata after hearing Fernando Sor's study in B minor for guitar. (I think it's from Sor's opus 31, but I'm

[LUTE] Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-08 Thread Eric Crouch
) but there are similarities in the chord sequence sufficient to make the resemblance striking - and, yes it must be that guitarists are just very credulous people! You mean the one that Sor pilfered from #21 at http://www.polyhymnion.org/swv/opus-2.html RT =EF=BF=BC Eric Crouch On 7 Aug 2005, at 20:46

[LUTE] Re: OT: Mozart for guitar

2005-08-07 Thread Eric Crouch
Fernando Sor's study in B minor for guitar. (I think it's from Sor's opus 31, but I'm not sure because my copy hasn't got the opus no. on it.) I'd be interested if anyone (perhaps Arthur) knows whether there is any basis for this belief. Eric Crouch On 5 Aug 2005, at 18:39, Roman Turovsky

Re: Byrd

2005-07-24 Thread Eric Crouch
of different pieces based on the same theme - eg Edward Collard's Ground (for lute) based on the same theme as Byrd's Hugh Ashton's Ground, and the several versions of Conde Claros for vihuela and lute. Eric Crouch On 24 Jul 2005, at 06:00, Sal Salvaggio wrote: Luters, I am presently working