[LUTE] Re: Lutes and social classes historically.

2012-07-24 Thread Gary Digman
Tobias Hume was not a member of the aristocracy. He was a mercenary soldier and died penniless in a home for the destitute. At one point he petitioned parliament for a pension complaining that he had been reduced to eating weeds to stay alive. I believe the ancestors of the violin family were

[LUTE] Re: Tuning

2012-07-02 Thread Gary Digman
Isn't happy existentialist an oxymoron? Gary - Original Message - From: Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com To: wi...@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 1:25 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tuning Thanks, Arto. I'm glad to know there are other happy

[LUTE] Re: USA Aquila

2012-05-08 Thread Gary Digman
I bought strings from them three weeks ago. Mailed my check to the Portland address and had my strings within the week: new Nylgut for the first four courses of my ten course. Played one concert with them on. So far I'm liking them. Gary - Original Message - From: Alain

[LUTE] Fw: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Digman
Hi Roman, I'm confused. Are you saying that the gamba parts are subordinate to the organ, that the gamba is accompanying the organ and not the other way around. Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@gmail.com To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Gary Digman magg

[LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-05-01 Thread Gary Digman
So were JSB's three gamba sonatas originally intended for trumpet? Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com; lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:34 AM Subject: Bach’s Lute Suites: This

[LUTE] Re: Paul O'Dette interview

2012-04-11 Thread Gary Digman
Irony is a difficult effect to pull off on a computer. Gary - Original Message - From: Sauvage Valéry sauvag...@orange.fr To: 'Lute List' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:32 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Paul O'Dette interview -Message d'origine- De la part

[LUTE] Re: Nazi rules correction!

2012-03-17 Thread Gary Digman
I grew up in a small catholic parish in Dubuque, Iowa. As a kid we sang in the choir loft for solemn (high) masses. We were taught to read plainchant. I remember the four line staves and the ligatures. To some extent the experience may account for my subsequent interest in early music. I was

[LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers

2012-03-15 Thread Gary Digman
Obviously you were not the demographic they were looking for, Ed. I think what happened was a move away from a contemplative approach to religiousity to a social/interactive approach. Maybe we could trace the origins of Facebook to the abandoning of the Latin Mass. Gary - Original

[LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers

2012-03-14 Thread Gary Digman
I played double bass with a jazz group for a jazz service in a church full of Presbyterian ministers. At one point in the service the celebrant decided to introduce the band to the assembled ministers by conducting a short interview with each member of the band. I happened to be the first one

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Digman
: Saturday quotes On 12 March 2012 08:23, Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net wrote: The Michael Jackson approach? What I saw in a documenary on him, and what I hear in his music, is an never-ending attention for detail and perfection in all aspects of the performance. I don't see anything bad

[LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Digman
Famed Czech radical Josef Skvorecky recently died at 87 in his adopted land of Canada. In the Atlantic, JJ Gould remembers Skvorecky through his memoirs, including a detailed list of the rules for jazz performers during the Nazi occupation. The Reich's Gauleiter for the Nazi

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes

2012-03-12 Thread Gary Digman
The Michael Jackson approach? Hanging the lute over the balcony railing? Playing with one hand in a glove? Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Mark Wheeler l...@pantagruel.de; Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Transposing lute tablature on sight

2011-12-08 Thread Gary Digman
If the map is all we've got, then the map is the territory. And maybe the huckle buck (sic) is what it's all about. This dew drop world, it may be a dew drop...and yet. Gary From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net To: lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:00

[LUTE] Re: SAD TRIP----Michael Thames

2011-11-30 Thread Gary Digman
Scam! Gary - Original Message - From: Mathias Rösel mathias.roe...@t-online.de To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:28 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: SAD TRIPMichael Thames I cannot believe this. Does someone know if that mess-age is reliable?

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance lute string length

2011-08-20 Thread Gary Digman
I believe they're North Korean. Gary - Original Message - From: Edward Mast nedma...@aol.com To: Martin Shepherd mar...@luteshop.co.uk Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:01 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Renaissance lute string length A friend just sent me

[LUTE] Re: What's the point to historical sound

2011-07-03 Thread Gary Digman
It seems to me that historical research is useful to modern performance practice on early instruments, but does not exercise a tyranny over it unless one is concerned with reproducing a particular performance exactly. It seems fairly obvious to me that the lutenists/composers of the

[LUTE] Re: Complete Works of Marco D'all Aquila

2011-06-30 Thread Gary Digman
Thank you to all who responded to my query. I was able to download manuscript Munich 266. Glad to hear that the Complete Works... is near publication. Gary - Original Message - From: Christopher Wilke chriswi...@yahoo.com To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Gary Digman gcanudig...@email.com

[LUTE] Complete Works of Marco D'all Aquila

2011-06-29 Thread Gary Digman
I know this has been asked before, but I ask again. It's now two years since the announcement of the imminent publication of the Complete Works of Marco D'all Aquila. Last I heard was that the publisher was waiting for Paul O'Dette to finish editing some pieces. Are we still waiting

[LUTE] Re: Ear training for lute playing.

2011-06-15 Thread Gary Digman
Diego Ortiz, Sylvestre Ganassi and Christopher Simpson are good sources of exercises. Play everything through as many keys as possible. Gary - Original Message - From: Ed Durbrow edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp To: Herbert Ward wa...@physics.utexas.edu; LuteNet list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: New blog post

2011-05-07 Thread Gary Digman
consonances. I won't say I liked the compostion, but I did find it interesting. Personally I'm open to and welcome experimentation. Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:11

[LUTE] Re: New blog post

2011-05-06 Thread Gary Digman
...gratuitous dissonance...? Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com; wi...@cs.helsinki.fi; gilbert.is...@telenet.be Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:28 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: New blog post

[LUTE] Re: itinerant dana

2011-03-15 Thread Gary Digman
The optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says it's half empty, but it all depends on what's in the glass. If the glass is full of toxic waste, the roles are reversed. Gonna be a long time passing, I'm afeared. Fiddling while Rome burns... again. Gary - Original Message

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-05 Thread Gary Digman
I saw it another way. I felt his gestures were consistent with the musical content and even necessary to the musical expression, even if somewhat more exaggerated than I would use. Each one marked a change in dyamics and or the beginning or ending of a phrase. A similar thing used to be said

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-05 Thread Gary Digman
Heaven forbid, a lutenist should make a living wage playing his/her lute. And playing it well, I might add. Gary - Original Message - From: Alfonso Marin luten...@gmail.com To: lutelist Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:15 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Digman
Beautiful. I'm fascinated by that lute. Edin may be on to something. Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:51 PM Subject: [LUTE] Karamazov

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2010-12-01 Thread Gary Digman
Thank you, Roman; What sort of lute is Edin playing? 13 courses and the first 5 are single. This is new to me. Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:51 PM Subject: [LUTE] Karamazov

[LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc..

2010-11-20 Thread Gary Digman
Catherinot To: [2]Gary Digman ; [3]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:55 AM Subject: Re : [LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc.. Do you think that six chords music is necesseraly worse than more complex music? To stay in jazz world, Fats

[LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc..

2010-11-17 Thread Gary Digman
After the Modern Jazz Quartet retired, Milt Jackson was interviewed. During the interview he complained that some kid who only know six chords makes more in one night than we made in twenty years. Later an interviewer asked John Lewis about Milt Jackson's complaint. John Lewis replied, I

[LUTE] Re: More digital facsimiles from the (public) libraries?

2010-11-13 Thread Gary Digman
Maybe our culture is disintegrating before our very eyes. Can a culture be lost? Gary - Original Message - From: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk To: Christopher Wilke chriswi...@yahoo.com Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:03 AM Subject: [LUTE]

[LUTE] Re: More digital facsimiles from the (public) libraries?

2010-11-12 Thread Gary Digman
Yet, there's something noble about making these availlable at no cost, just as there's something noble about public libraries making books availlable at no cost to the user in the interest of enriching the culture. A decidedly uncapitalistic sentiment originating with an arch-captialist,

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-09 Thread Gary Digman
I can't let this go uncorrected. I misspelled Barney's last name, it's Kessel not Kessell. Gary - Original Message - From: Edward Martin e...@gamutstrings.com To: Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-08 Thread Gary Digman
Music study is a lifelong process. Enjoy the ride. The only reason to do this is because you love doing it. If you can quit, you should. Gary - Original Message - From: Edward Mast nedma...@aol.com To: Stephen Arndt stephenar...@earthlink.net Cc: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-08 Thread Gary Digman
As the famous jazz guitarist, Barney Kessell, said, The first thing you learn in music is that somebody will always come along who plays better than you do, is younger than you, dresses better than you do, and is better looking. Gary - Original Message - From:

[LUTE] Re: Lute volume

2010-10-19 Thread Gary Digman
- Original Message - From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:14 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute volume .. But worrying about the theorbo player's desire to be heard isn't in their job description. We're

[LUTE] Re: Lute volume

2010-10-19 Thread Gary Digman
When the bagpipe plays, you won't be able to hear the lute, but the lute is pleasant to look at. So, when the bagpipe plays, enjoy the lute. Peter Schickele - Original Message - From: Stewart McCoy lu...@tiscali.co.uk To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 19,

[LUTE] Re: Lute volume

2010-10-18 Thread Gary Digman
Sunday, Cottbus). In the beginning, or so I was later told, a woman said, now a mike is needed, but after a short while she could dela with it. As a matter of fact, there was a lot of echo in the huge cathedral. But focussing does the trick. Or so I was told 8) Mathias Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net

[LUTE] Re: Lute volume

2010-10-17 Thread Gary Digman
I remember Thurston Dart talking about attending a clavichord recital (can't remember the source). He said that when the clavichord began to sound he could not hear it at all, but after a short while it was like surf crashing on the rocks. Gary - Original Message - From: Ron Andrico

[LUTE] Re: Lute volume

2010-10-17 Thread Gary Digman
As a jazz musician, I play a lot of corporate events and parties. For years I thought the crowd would get louder every time we began to play, but now I think the perception that the crowd is getting louder is a result of focus, i.e. when we begin to play we focus on sound, giving the impression

[LUTE] Re: incompatibility gardening/lute playing?

2010-06-30 Thread Gary Digman
As a young man ( I've been a young man for many years ) I worked as a carpenter building houses in the midwest (USA) for seven years while studying classical guitar, practicing 3 and 4 hours a night. This was before pneumatic and electric nailers were in widespread use. After slinging a hammer

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2010-06-12 Thread Gary Digman
Jordi Savall was the gambist. I read an interview with Savall. I thought he said that the actor who played Sainte-Colombe was the only one who refused a stand in for the gamba playing shots, although he did say the young actress who plays the younger daughter did her own gamba playing shots.

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2010-06-11 Thread Gary Digman
, precious... my precious... ;-) Chris Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net wrote: From: Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute sighting To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Thursday, June

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2010-06-11 Thread Gary Digman
playing' 'On that close-up those were someone else's hands.' 'Look, the guitar/mic isn't even plugged in.' 'Hey, you can still hear her play even when her hands aren't on the guitar.' etc.etc. morgan __ From: Gary Digman

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2010-06-11 Thread Gary Digman
...@legalaidbuffalo.org To: Christopher Wilke chriswi...@yahoo.com; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:15 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute sighting Not very flattering to us players, but what if these depictions are of someone not playing loud

[LUTE] Re: Pisador

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Digman
Sorry, Ed. I had a senior moment... missed your opening caveat, Aside from the vihuela disc Got to go work on some more crossword puzzles. Gary - Original Message - From: Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net To: Edward Martin e...@gamutstrings.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Digman
I just saw the new Robin Hood with Russell Crowe. Indeed there are scenes with a small lute. One small point however, in one scene of the people of Nottingham at a party/dance outdoors the band consists of one small lute, one recorder, one vielle and percussion. It's late in the

[LUTE] test

2010-05-22 Thread Gary Digman
test -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: P.C. stringing

2010-05-05 Thread gary digman
Many tmes in concert I've been asked to talk a little about the lute. When I explain that the strings are made from sheep intestines, a noticeable gasp arises from the audience, but I defuse the situation by explaining that we are not killing lambs to make strings, we are killing lambs to eat

[LUTE] Re: Keeping pegs pushed in.

2010-03-30 Thread gary digman
It's called frapping among gambists and violinists and happens all the time. Bass gambists will press their heads against the neck of the instrument while turning the pegs on the side opposite to provide the pressure needed to prevent frapping. On the bass side the gambist will use the index

[LUTE] Re: Robert Spencer Collection

2010-02-13 Thread gary digman
To paraphrase Alexander King, Never trust a naked lute player. Gary - Original Message - From: Franz Mechsner franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk To: chriswilke chriswi...@yahoo.com; Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010

[LUTE] Re: Guitar, but less forte/faulty, organ

2009-12-23 Thread gary digman
A fellow came to my guitar studio in 1972 or '73 with a guitar with interchangeable fingerboards in various temperments. Can't remember his name. Gary - Original Message - From: Edward Martin e...@gamutstrings.com To: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Physiology of being warmed up.

2009-12-22 Thread gary digman
- Original Message - From: Herbert Ward wa...@physics.utexas.edu To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:58 AM Subject: [LUTE] Physiology of being warmed up .Can drugs help?... Jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan was once confronted by a fan who said, You play so

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-20 Thread gary digman
Big money in baroque guitar? Gary - Original Message - From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:22 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office Regarding

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-18 Thread gary digman
- Original Message - From: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk

[LUTE] Re: New twist, old scam

2009-12-10 Thread gary digman
Point Taken. Gary - Original Message - From: Wayne Cripps w...@cs.dartmouth.edu To: gcanudig...@email.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:39 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: New twist, old scam Hi Gary - I appreciate your good intentions, but it is best to

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-04 Thread gary digman
I'm not so sure that the ever mournful John Dowland's tongue was so firmly planted in his cheek on this issue. Did JD not travel to Italy to learn the melancholy pose. Maybe the melancholy pose was regarded as a muse inspiring great art as courtly love was among the medieval knights. Gary

[LUTE] Re: The End of the Golden Age

2009-10-12 Thread gary digman
Fuzz tone covers a multitude of sins. Gary - Original Message - From: chriswi...@yahoo.com To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; vidan...@sbcglobal.net; nedma...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:45 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: The End of the Golden Age Ned, --- On Sun, 10/11/09,

[LUTE] Re: Imbalance

2009-09-10 Thread gary digman
To paraphrase Monty Python, We are lutenists and we're ok; we like to dress in women's clothes. Gary - Original Message - From: Peter Martin peter.l...@gmail.com To: Lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:54 AM Subject: [LUTE] Imbalance Of the last

[LUTE] Re: test

2009-09-07 Thread gary digman
Yes, indeed. It's unusual to go two days without any postings on the lutelist. Thought maybe something was wrong at my end. Gary Digman, Luddite - Original Message - From: gonzornumpl...@roadrunner.com To: gary digman magg...@sonic.net Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:07 AM Subject

[LUTE] test

2009-09-06 Thread gary digman
test -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Alto lute help

2009-07-31 Thread gary digman
Placing the capo at the 2nd fret on a guitar tuned to A=440 would be equivalent to G=415 lute pitch. More method to the madness than first appears. Gary - Original Message - From: Franz Mechsner franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk To: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu; Daniel Winheld

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread gary digman
Or Robert B-1 Bob Dornan. Gary - Original Message - From: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu To: 'howard posner' howardpos...@ca.rr.com; 'lute mailing list list' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:03 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar ..not

[LUTE] Re: lute songs or pieces for wedding occasion

2009-06-18 Thread gary digman
How about Tobias Hume: My Mistress Hath a Pretty Thinge Tickle Me Quickly Purcell: O Let Me Weep I Attempt From Love's Sickness to Fly Ah, How Sweet It Is To Love Josquin: Adieu Mes Amours Passareau: Il Est Bel Et Bon? Gary P.S. Sorry for the redundancy, Dana. The finger hit send while

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale

2009-02-16 Thread gary digman
Alfonso; I didn't read Arto's remarks to mean that you're lute was overpriced, just that the cost had generally risen to the point of putting these instruments out of the reach of the majority of players. The same thing has happened to many instruments, double basses for example have

[LUTE] Re: Paul O'Dette Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . .

2009-02-09 Thread gary digman
Sorry, this was meant to be a private email. Slip of the finger. Please disregard. Gary - Original Message - From: gary digman magg...@sonic.net To: lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:44 AM Subject: [LUTE] Paul O'Dette Interview with Bruce Duffie

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-09 Thread gary digman
judgements about how successful I am at what I do to others. So much great music to play and so little time. Got to go practice. Gary - Original Message - From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net To: gary digman magg...@sonic.net Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:25 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-08 Thread gary digman
So much music, so little time! Gary (Aspires to be dilettante) - Original Message - From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:51 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism Yes but.. The but for me hinges on the words

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-08 Thread gary digman
Music is so vast that one could spend a lifetime in one position and never exhaust the possibilities. Gary (kid in a candy store) - Original Message - From: Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:07 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re:

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-08 Thread gary digman
Dan; What's your definition of doing better? Gary - Original Message - From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:18 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism One thing I didn't address in my rant; Are we in the lute

[LUTE] Paul O'Dette Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . .

2009-02-08 Thread gary digman
Dear Rat; I don't now if you'll be able to access this with your computer problemas, But if you are, I thought you might find this interview with Paul O'dette interesting if only for what he has to say about the way Beethoven is performed. Love, G

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-08 Thread gary digman
You're either assuming or asserting they haven't. Both of which I'd be inclined to take issue with. Gary - Original Message - From: Peter Martin peter.l...@gmail.com To: Lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 1:04 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism My

[LUTE] Re: Dilettantism

2009-02-07 Thread gary digman
It all depends on what one is trying to accomplish. If your goal is to become the best luter around and enjoy the accolades and privileges that accompany that position, it's probably imperative that you narrow your focus. If your goal is to explore and enjoy as much of this wonderful music as

[LUTE] Re: players getting better--was Trench Fill

2009-02-04 Thread gary digman
Louis Armstrong was criticized in his later years for not retiring because it was thought he had lost his chops. When told of this Wynton Marsalis responded with, Nuance is the epitome of technique! Gary - Original Message - From: Edward Martin e...@gamutstrings.com To: Mayes

[LUTE] Re: Two more videos

2009-02-04 Thread gary digman
There's room for everybody. I'm not offended by someone having the score in front of them. Also I find it interesting that lute players would be modeling their performance practice on Madonna's. I think I like things to be a little looser than that. My favorite performances are those in which I

[LUTE] Re: There is a traitor in our midst!

2009-01-19 Thread gary digman
Duke Ellington used to say that he aspired to be a dilettante. Charles Ives father is reported to have said that music begins when the last person who's trying to make a living from it dies. When ased what he thought of the playing of Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor is reputed to have said, He

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-13 Thread gary digman
The internet is a bathroom wall. Gary - Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century Lute and guitar

[LUTE] Re: Thought Provoking

2009-01-07 Thread gary digman
Another possible conclusion: If it doesn't cost an arm and a leg and isn't dressed up in the finery of a fancy Boston theater, it can't be worth anything. A third possible conclusion: The people who paid a $100 to attend the concert in the theater, most probably were there to be seen at the

[LUTE] Re: was Galliard after Laveche (William Ballet Lute Book), now: scan vs camera

2008-12-07 Thread gary digman
I haven't used the LSA Microfilm Library for a while, but, as I remember, they used to give you the option of renting the microfilm or buying a hardcopy, although the quality of the hardcopy was considerably less than I could get from the microfilm using my library's equipment. Gary -

[LUTE] Re: was something, now vinyl

2008-11-26 Thread gary digman
The free market at work. Gary - Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:43 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: was something, now vinyl snip well, that's not something intrinsic to USB; IMHO

[LUTE] Re: The Online Lute Player

2008-11-18 Thread gary digman
I have to say, I'm not sure I agree with this policy of banning people from posting on the lutelist. I know that some people engage in ad hominem arguing, name calling, insults etc., but it seems to me one can always use the delete button to eliminate postings one finds objectionable. I

[LUTE] Re: Lineage of early Guitars

2008-09-23 Thread gary digman
Aside from octave stringing on the 4th and 5th cources, was not Francisco Gerau's tuning identical to strings 5 thru 1 of the modern guutar? Surely Gerau was not the first to use this non-reentrant tuning for the baroque guitar. Gary - Original Message - From: Monica Hall [EMAIL

[LUTE] Re: life or death

2008-08-25 Thread gary digman
How about Dowland's Adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell , composed, I believe, to commemorate the death of his uncle? Gary - Original Message - From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:42 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: life or death

[LUTE] Re: life or death

2008-08-24 Thread gary digman
Tobias Hume has both Life and Death in tablature for lyra viol, but can be played effectively on the lute. Gary - Original Message - From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:59 AM Subject: [LUTE] life or death Any lute pieces

[LUTE] Re: more general scams

2008-08-14 Thread gary digman
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ Other Matters: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ === - Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, August 13

[LUTE] Re: more general scams

2008-08-13 Thread gary digman
I have not received the UPS thing, but I get emails which are phishing attempts by individuals purporting to be PayPal. I have forwarded these emails to PayPal and they have confirmed that the emails are indeed attempts at phishing. Do not exhange personal information on the internet unless you

[LUTE] Re: Bizarre info request, bordering on advice request

2008-07-09 Thread gary digman
...the choices are Electric Engineer and Electronics and Computer Engineering. I've been a programmer systems admin, and it's a bag of worms I don't want to have to deal with! Computer--worms? Gary - Original Message - From: William Brohinsky To: gary digman Sent

[LUTE] Re: Look what the cat brought in

2008-06-09 Thread gary digman
arrangements for lute? Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -Original Message- From: gary digman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2008 08:12 To: lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: look what the cat brought in I have the cd by Rondollus (sic), an Estonian early music group. It is surprizing how

[LUTE] Re: Fuenllana 5c vihuela

2008-06-07 Thread gary digman
Assuming that the 6c vihuela was tuned like a 6c lute, removing the chanterelle will produce at least one baroque (5c) guitar tuning (Guerau). Gary - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

[LUTE] Re: look what the cat brought in

2008-06-06 Thread gary digman
I have the cd by Rondollus (sic), an Estonian early music group. It is surprizing how well Ozzy and Geezer and Tony's tunes work as early music. Great fun. Gary P.S. The website has been up for three or four years. It probably isn't getting the maintenance and attention it once did. -

[LUTE] Re: Francesco and the viola da mano

2008-06-05 Thread gary digman
I seem to recall reading that Francesco played viola da gamba as well as lute. Gary - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antonio Corona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:38 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Francesco and the

[LUTE] Re: Frets

2008-05-11 Thread gary digman
I've always done it this way (bridge to nut), allows one to pull the fret into place over a longer portion of the neck ensuring a snug fit, except for the fret closest to the nut of course. Gary - Original Message - From: Sean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net

[LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom?

2008-05-03 Thread gary digman
That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me today. Gary - Original Message - From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom? Try sitting on a nail

[LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom?

2008-05-03 Thread gary digman
time lurker and wanna-be lute player. ;-) -Original Message- From: Roman Turovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:51 AM To: lutelist; gary digman Subject: [LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom? What this country needs is more moxie, and a couple of years of food

[LUTE] Re: String Conversion Table

2008-05-03 Thread Gary Digman
Thank you, Roman. Most useful. Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky To: BAROQUE-LUTE Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] String Conversion Table Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 15:42:19 -0400 A useful chart- http://www.ianwatchorn.com.au/String%20Conversion%20Table.pdf RT To

[LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom?

2008-05-02 Thread gary digman
I, for one, am not offended by your comments, Arto. Keep making some of us (Americans) uncomfortable. Gary - Original Message - From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:54 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom? In

[LUTE] Re: Recercare

2008-04-02 Thread gary digman
Why is who's better so important? Is this a race? Gary - Original Message - From: igor . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs. dartmouth. edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:08 AM Subject: [LUTE] Recercare http://youtube.com/watch?v=lEyk0jOIagw thanks Val !

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov as a circus musician

2008-03-24 Thread gary digman
Spike Jones said, If you're going to shoot off a gun in a tune, you better have good time. Gary - Original Message - From: Sean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:02 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov as a circus musician For the

[LUTE] Re: Forqueray

2008-03-16 Thread gary digman
...believe it or not...? Shouldn't it be, ...believe it or don't..? Sister Mary Diesel (ruler in hand). PS: I'm not quite sure why this thread is becoming so acrimonious. - Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2008-01-26 Thread gary digman
Where can I find this recording? Monk was anything but sloppy. His music was precise and exacting as any will discover on attempting to play it. And oh how he swung! Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lutelist lute

[LUTE] Re: Karamazov

2008-01-25 Thread gary digman
Is there somebody out there who thinks Thelonius Monk was incompetent?! FYI Monk was a master stride pianist among other things. Stride piano is one the most challenging jazz styles. If you think Monk was incompetent, I challenge you to play a couple of choruses of Trinkle Tinkle. Then we'll

[LUTE] Re: Doubling The Parts?

2007-12-24 Thread Gary Digman
Timbre is an element of musical expression as well as pitch. Why does a composer have an oboe and a violin or a bassoon and a trombone play the same part? Because the timbre of the combined sound is different than each separately. Gary - Original Message - From: David Rastall To:

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