[LUTE] octave strings

2019-07-31 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Anyone tried this method of octave string placement? [1]https://www.thekremercollection.com/theodoor-rombouts/(press + to enlarge) -- References 1. https://www.thekremercollection.com/theodoor-rombouts/ To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: PS to Re: De Visee

2019-05-10 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
La Dirindina! That must be great fun. Best wishes, Lex -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Namens Martyn Hodgson Verzonden: vrijdag 10 mei 2019 16:27 Aan: 'Lute List' ; Lex Eisenhardt Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: PS to Re: De Visee

[LUTE] Re: PS to Re: De Visee

2019-05-10 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Namens Martyn Hodgson Verzonden: vrijdag 10 mei 2019 15:45 Aan: 'Lute List' ; Lex Eisenhardt Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: PS to Re: De Visee Dear Lex, You don't seem to have been able to read all of my earlier PS

[LUTE] PS to Re: De Visee

2019-05-10 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
as to provide support to the 'nibble' end of the plucking finger. regards M. - Forwarded message - From: Martyn Hodgson To: 'Lute List' ; Lex Eisenhardt Sent: Friday, 10 May 2019, 09:09:24 BST Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: De Visee Dear Lex, Well, are you

[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2019-05-10 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
tmouth.edu] Namens Martyn Hodgson Verzonden: vrijdag 10 mei 2019 10:09 Aan: 'Lute List' ; Lex Eisenhardt Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: De Visee Dear Lex, Well, are you referring to the report that said C couldn't play because he'd broken a nail? This might, of course, easily as well refer

[LUTE] Re: De Visee Corbetta

2019-05-09 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Context matters, and this could indeed be a possible explanation of Ebert's addition to his text from 1723. But it seems clear that Corbetta had to pay his fellow musicians out of his own pocket first, regardless of whether he was subsequently compensated. So, if this were a myth, then at

[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2019-05-09 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
On the other side [of the nail], we know that Corbetta used them. The influence of his playing, on a whole generation of guitarists (perhaps also including Robert de Visee), can hardly be overestimated. Therefore, it seems likely that, also in France, some used their nails when playing from

[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2019-05-08 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Should be 1724... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Namens Lex Eisenhardt Verzonden: woensdag 8 mei 2019 11:43 Aan: 'LuteList' Onderwerp: [LUTE] Re: De Visee The 'myth' is probably based on Ebert's Vermehrte Reise Beschreibung

[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2019-05-08 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
The 'myth' is probably based on Ebert's Vermehrte Reise Beschreibung (1674): https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN518447235?tify={%22pages%22:[311],%22view%22:%22info%22} Lex -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Namens Yuval

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-06 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Almost no nails? L Van: Roland Hayes [[1]mailto:rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org] Verzonden: woensdag 6 maart 2019 21:02 Aan: lex.eisenhardt <[2]lex.eisenha...@gmail.com> Onderwerp: Re: [LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky I would add "almost" Get [3]Outlook

[LUTE] Re: Campanelle

2018-01-26 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Slightly changed, hopefully improved… [1]http://www.lexeisenhardt.com/file/Campanelle.pdf Van: Lex Eisenhardt [mailto:lex.eisenha...@gmail.com] Verzonden: woensdag 24 januari 2018 23:25 Aan: 'lute@cs.dartmouth.edu' Onderwerp: Campanelle Today I uploaded a new paper

[LUTE] Campanelle

2018-01-24 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Today I uploaded a new paper: [1]http://www.lexeisenhardt.com/file/Campanelle.pdf Lex -- References 1. http://www.lexeisenhardt.com/file/Campanelle.pdf To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Archive files

2016-10-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Perhaps this is what you're looking for https://www.mail-archive.com/vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu/msg01314.html ? Lex -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Namens Ralf Mattes Verzonden: dinsdag 18 oktober 2016 19:19 Aan: Ralf Mattes CC:

[LUTE] new article

2016-10-07 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
I uploaded a new article: [1]http://lexeisenhardt.com/file/A_String_of_Confusion.pdf Lex -- References 1. http://lexeisenhardt.com/file/A_String_of_Confusion.pdf To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-06 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Monica Hall wrote: Double octave stringing is mostly suitable only for strumming as Sanz says. Gaspar Sanz: For those who wish to use the guitar to play noisy music, or to accompany the bass of a tono [a vocal work] or sonada, the guitar is better strung with bourdons

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
It is not about adding just another colour. By the percussive rhythm of a guitar (with an effect almost like a snare drum, caused by excessive forceful strumming) the whole character of the music can change. Therefore it would be good to be well informed about the existence of such

[LUTE] enough

2008-01-24 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
reasons to quit the list again -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-19 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Two days ago I posted this message to the VIHUELA list. With a CC to the LUTE. I think it got lost in cyberspace. Probably because of the CC Monica Hall wrote: The short answer to that is that what has survived in print is only a tip of the iceberg. And what is printed commercially

[LUTE] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-19 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
..and another... The exercises in the books by Corbetta et al include examples showing which alfabeto chords match the the notes of the bass part e.g. The Regola per sonar sopra la parte on p.70 on Corbetta's are surely intended to help the player devise a strummed accompaniment. This

[LUTE] Re: tablature, alfabeto and BC

2008-01-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Related to this: are you aware if any lists of players at the 17thC/early 18thC Italian Opera Houses listing theorbos, harpsichords players also showing guitarists.? Martyn The theorbist can also play the guitar. Normally not at the same time... Lex -- To get on or off this list see

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
small lute-shaped instruments (like in Kircher), that probably had the interval of a fifth. Don't you mean intervals of a third and fourth respectively? As I understand it, it is supposed that the mandora in Kircher (as in Praetorius) is a chitarra Italiana. With Kircher the tuning of

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Maybe the chitarrone is indeed a 'big kithara', rather than a 'big chitarra' (or 'big kuitra')? Chitarrone is the decendant of both, because they are the one, a decendant of Roman era lutes. RT In wikipedia it reads: 'It is important to note that- although theorbo and chitarrone are

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-18 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
There is also such thing as evolutionary convergence. A hornet-fly has developed the look of a real hornet, to avoid getting eaten. Ditto theorbo. RT There is one essential difference. Evolution only works with living creatures. Lex To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
So violone is a big viola, as chitarrone is a big (ancient Greek) cithara, Actually not. Chitarrone is a big CHITARRA ITALIANA. Any idea what that might be? In Millioni 1631 it reads: Chi volesse ancor'imparare à far le lettere per sonar' il Chitarrino, overo Chitarra Italiana per via di

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Like I said, I've read Meucci's article. The trouble is that iconography doesn't say 'this is a chitarra Italiana'. Surely it does. A 3-4course lute-shaped axe that looks like KUITRA looks pretty obvious to me. RT It seems no more than a guess that this was the instrument that Millioni had

[LUTE] Re: Fuenllana Tan que vivray

2007-03-06 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Peter 1. If this French or Spanish. It looks hybrid. You could look at: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Tant_que_vivray_(Claudin_de_Sermisy) The composer is Claudin de Sermisy, words in French but spelling hispanized. 2. Is the symbol that looks like a Greek eta (or an n with and

[LUTE] Re: Unmarried strung archlutes

2006-11-26 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
...They were not classical guitarists dressed up like lute players. Hey, I resemble that remark! ...other than the fact that my lute-like things are double strung. Not to mention lute players dressed up like baroque guitarists... L. To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-14 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Hi Richard, List The issue of the re-entrant tuning on a guitar is a very different subject. First it has noting to do with string length, and second it has nothing to do with bass lines...as has been pointed out it has all to do with campanella passages. The initial question (as I

[LUTE] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?

2006-10-13 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Hi, I suppose that the origins of the re-entrant tunings may be different for theorbo and guitar. There are people on this list who can explain in detail about quest for an optimal instrument for accompaniment of the voice in the early opera (Naldi, Piccinini). Greater stringlength on the

[LUTE] Re: Christ's Cross

2006-04-06 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Thank you, Caroline. Allow me to me rederect this message to the good list of the Vihuela-People. Q: Were there such 'books' in other countries/ for other languages as well? For Italian or Spanish? L. At 04:30 AM 4/6/2006, Ed Durbrow wrote: On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:05 AM, Lex Eisenhardt wrote

[LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament

2006-03-26 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Carbonchi's 'Lo dodici chitarre spostate' from 1643 (Florence) comes to mind. Imagine to strum a passacaglia with twelve guitars, all tuned one semitone apart with 12 different alfabeto chords at the same time. Comes close to 'garage revival rock'. But meantone? Best, L. Although Colonna's 25

[LUTE] Re: Lautenwerck

2006-02-04 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
I just bought a cd (2 euros) by Gergely Sarkozy playing Bach on Lautenwerck. Interesting, not bad playing, but nylon and brass strung! |-( I thought the whole point of a Lautenwerck was the gut stringing. Luckily the same shop had Nigel North playing Bach for 3 euro, Hopefully on an all

[LUTE] Re: Casanova

2006-01-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Francesco Casanova da Milano? - Original Message - From: Patrick H [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:04 PM Subject: [LUTE] Casanova Has anyone seen Casanova yet? There are many lutes in the movie and the soundtrack. I was

Re: Renaissance America - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-11 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
You also might try Thomas Walker's (1968) 'Ciaccona and Passacaglia: Remarks on their Origin and Early History', JAMS 21/3 L. Fossum, Arthur wrote: I will try to track down Richard Hudson's studies( thanks Antonio) -Arthur -- To get on or off this list see list information at

Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Has anyone noticed that both Luis de Narvaez and Charles Mouton were active in the same watersports? They are both pictured (or was it a plucker from Greece?) on the back of a large fish, presumably a delfin. cheers, L. -- To get on or off this list see list information at

Re: Delphin gut 2

2004-11-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Dear Stewart, Thanks for your enlightning answer. I could indeed have formulated the question in a more serious way. For us (the rest of the world) it is hard to be funny (deliberately) in English. I am willing to learn more about those fishy mammals. (I am doing research for an article in

Re: To strum or not to strum

2004-03-21 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
There is much information on guitar accompaniment in the instructions in the books by Corbetta (1643, 1648 ans 1671) and Granata (1659). And later Grenerin and Matteis. The problem is that much of the Alfabeto song repertoire is from decades earlier. It is best probably to see how Foscarini

Re: a new mail list filter

2004-02-04 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Thank you Wayne, your work is highly appreciated! L. - Original Message - From: Wayne Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:42 PM Subject: a new mail list filter Hi Everyone - I have just installed a new filter into the lute list

Re: foreign accents

2004-01-29 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
alt+0128 that is, L

Re: John Cage on Lute

2003-12-19 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Would this piece need much practise? I consider to start my next recital with it. L. Dear Michael, It is possible that John Cage achieved something as a composer, but, if he did, it has escaped me. Cutting strings, performing in silence, and all those other sad gimmicks are utterly