Dear All,
I'm currently offering online lessons. Two HD webcams (one for
close-ups). External mic for improved sound quality. Tested Zoom
(recommended), FaceTime (good), Skype and Messenger (possible but not
recommended). Open to players of all levels. If interested, feel free
to
Dear All,
I’m currently offering online lessons. Two HD webcams (one for close-ups).
External mic for improved sound quality. Tested Zoom (recommended), FaceTime
(good), Skype and Messenger (possible but not recommended). Open to players of
all levels. If interested, feel free to get in touch
Dear Lutenists,
There seems to be no announcement on this list yet, nor have I put one myself
until now: my CD Polonica is now out and available worldwide, at least from
most major online music retailers. A Google search will provide further
information. Here are a few links:
Dear Luteneters,
Two new lute videos of mine are now on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-idSe5I26Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Utq4aRbu8
All the best,
Michal
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Dear Lutenists in the USA,
This is to let you know that the Swiss early music ensemble La Morra -
featuring lutenists Michal Gondko and Ryosuke Sakamoto on lute, viola da mano
and gittern - will be touring in the USA between 25 February and 11 March with
a program of frottole and instrumental
For those who are going to attend the upcoming Cleveland Lute Festival and
are interested in 15th/early 16th-century keyboard/lute music: faculty
member Eve Kopli will have 5 copies of my new CD Von edler Art for sale at
$20.
http://www.lamorra.info/docs/vea.html
http://www.ramee.org/0802gb.html
Dear All,
Some of you might want to know, that the CD VON EDLER ART:
Fifteenth-Century German Music for Keyboard and Plucked Stringed
Instruments is now out. Performed by Corina Marti (claviciterium) and
Michal Gondko (lute and gittern), solo as well as in duet, the recorded
repertoire ranges
Vibrato in various forms dates back to the middle ages.
Could you elaborate that?
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Not to mention d'ascanio, whover he was,
Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, Josquin's early patron in Italy.
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Dear Steven,
I've known him since the mid 1990s and considered a friend. But some time in
the early 2000's, he apparently made up his mind to quit the lute making
business, yet kept accepting new orders and taking deposits from customers
(including myself - he owes a 1000 Euro to me alone!). He
But the truth is that most of it is out of print for many years now and
circulates at best in xerox copies. If you are very lucky you may find
something in antiquarian bookstores. Good music libraries might have some
titles. PWM has an anthology of Eastern European lute music which is
available
Can anyone recommend a shipping company in the US, that has a reputation of
shipping musical instruments safely from the US to Europe?
I'd appreciate any hints,
M
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Finally, can anyone recommend a site as reputable
as Wayne's Lute Page for buying one of these things?
http://sinierderidder.free.fr/gb/maingb.html
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Hear, hear! I remember years ago playing in a lute quartet. We used to play
a Bakfark 4-part fantasia on four lutes. Suddenly it became non-risky stage
music. ;-)
David
I always wanted to hear these fantasias played by a good consort of viols.
M
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Hear, hear! I remember years ago playing in a lute quartet. We used to play
a Bakfark 4-part fantasia on four lutes. Suddenly it became non-risky stage
music. ;-)
David
I always wanted to hear these fantasias played by a good consort of viols.
M
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it would also be quite interesting to find out when the
7th course had a second revival in the mid 15th c. when polyphonic
intabulations probably demanded it (as maybe also better luthier skills
(materials/tools?)
The choice of a 6-course instrument looks to me to have been more or less a
On 9/6/06 10:53 AM, Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the French Lute Net: a website where you may buy the collected
works of Polak for a mere five euros:
http://www.pwm.com.pl/szukaj.php?sp=tcon=tphr=ttryb=prostepoile=
Otherwise it is ca. 10 EUR. In Poland 21 zl. is a lot of money, I would say
comparatively
even more than 10 EUR in , let's say France or Germany.
21 zl isn't that much, at the moment some 5.3 Eur (1 Eur being around 3.96
zl). Not sure whether this anniversary special edition includes
What kind of edition is it? A facsimile with transcription or modern tab? And
how large is the collection?
Taco
The (standard?) version that I have contains only facsimiles of
frontispieces and several pieces only. The edition of all identified pieces
(at that time) is tab (as found in the
Be careful what you wish for.
I see no reason to fear greater popularity of the lute.
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Sting and Karamazov are working on a Dowland album:
http://www.sting.com/news/news.php?uid=4527
RT
I sincerely hope that something good will come out from this project for our
instrument. I'd expect an album like this to sell in large quantities,
larger than any lute CD (perhaps even early
It depends on what one labels as French. Losy was after 1700, and Kellner
(yes, it is for 11 course) was in 1740.
Or, maybe, how long were people interested in playing/collecting music by
French lutenists (Mouton, Gallot etc.).
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Fellows Lutenists,
Not my main thing, just curious: what is the latest source for the 11-course
French baroque lute music? I'm sure someone will know.
Thanks.
M
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On 3/30/06 8:05 PM, Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What doe he mean by saying that he 'got it down' to something very thin?
About 1 mm. But it will probably take a few feathers to find out what
thickness suits you.
And now I'm left with a cylindrical object (well, slightly oblong)
and
Good luck Rob!
On 3/24/06 9:55 PM, Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone with 5,000 Dollars to spare, or 5,000 Euros, or £3,000?
Naxos have agreed to put out my Fuenallana disc, with worldwide
distribution. As is common these days, the performer must pay for the Master
disc (ie
On 3/19/06 8:02 PM, Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message on the medieval lute list, Jean-Paul Bazin suggested that
Crawford Young's students tune their gitterns: G,D,G,C so the top string
is a fourth above a G lute. That puts the lowest C, often the 'tonic',
on the fifth fret,
I've been watching some of the 'travelling with theorbo'-discussion here -
indeed a problem for many of us, to which no fully satisfactory solution has
yet been found.
I was wondering: obviously there is a size difference, but it became a norm
to rent a harpsichord for a performance; why
But what would the large bass
instruments have been like? Do any survive from this period?
None from the (late) fifteenth-century. However, as far as I know, surviving
Maler lutes are bass instruments, the earliest from 1520s (? Someone correct
me if I'm wrong).
M
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Dear Stewart,
Thank you for your long reply.
Just a few points:
When one is faced with a piece, such as Roelikin's setting of De
tous biens plaine, which has a range of notes from a low G to high
e flat, one has to consider what instrument can cope. Wind
instruments cannot, because their
I still can't quite believe this is genuinely lute music as opposed to
music that is multiply realisable. There are many sustained notes,
sometimes over two bars.
It doesn't look like lute music.
I don't know Banks' work and his arguments (yet), but unless there is a firm
evidence that these
Others could play pieces not only a 2 but also a 3 or a 4 - a difficult
feat. Tinctoris mentions a German,
Heinrich, recently in the service of Charles the Bold, as one of them.
(MitR. p.148).
He was Henri Bouclers, he appears in the Burgundian court's payment records
since 1468,
On 11/25/05 11:29 PM, Thomas Schall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear collected wisdom,
does someone has information about Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col
sopran in canto figurato published by F.Bossinensis in Venice, 1511? Is
there a facsimile available?
Further information?
And what
On 11/21/05 1:35 AM, Eric Redlinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michal, Denys, Thomas, Sean, Roman, and others -
thanks a lot for the responses! so, it looks like there were
manuscript versions of French Chansons preceding Attaignant but only
just barely. What I'm trying to explore is the
New to the list, hello everyone.
According to the musicologist John Kmetz, Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562) -
Basler lawyer and amateur musician (he played lute, among other instruments)
- 'had access to a manuscript transmission of the so-called Parisian
chanson, predating the earliest printed
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