Re: Tablature rhythm signs

2004-06-08 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Stewart, many thanks for your excellent posting. Your mails are always very interesting and of great value! You are absolutely right, that most of the modern editions etc. give wrong impression of the original notation. There are also some charts which give the corrcet relationship

Re: Chandos S.L.Weiss Lute Concertos.

2004-05-07 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Paolo, Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) A trivial mistake about the Weiss' date of birth? Not at all. It is quite possible, that 1687 (stated by Louise Gottsched) and not 1686 (which is on the posthumus etching by Folin ) is correct. See Frank Legl's very important article (in

Pratum musicum 1600

2004-03-25 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear friends, many thanks for all those, who answered to my request concerning Adriansen's Pratum. It is wonderful that we have such a great resource like our LUTENET. Best wishes: Peter Kiraly- Peter Király Glockenstr. 34 D-67655 Kaiserslautern T/Fax. (00)49 631 69866

Douglas Alton Smith

2004-01-17 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear friends, I am trying to get in touch with Douglas Alton Smith, on behalf of the German Lautengesellschaft, but all my mails has been returned so far. Obviously the address I have, are no more valid. (The latest I had: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Does anybody know his recent address? Please answer

(Fwd) [SSCM-L] Plucked strings at La Jolla

2003-12-18 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Friends, I have not seen in the lutenet yet this posting, which I received today from the Society for Seventeenth Century Music. I figure, some people, who ar living nearer, than I, might be interested. Pleas try to contact not to me. I have nothing to do with the whole thing. Best

Re: (serious/popular)

2003-12-17 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Ed, Bakfark finished his Lyon lute book with the piece my last sighs (Ultimi mei sospiri), and the Cracow lute book ends with a reference to the lack of money (Faulte d'argent). Best regards, Peter - Peter Király Glockenstr. 34 D-67655 Kaiserslautern T/Fax. (00)49

Re: (serious/popular)

2003-12-15 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear friends, James A Stimson wrote: [DEL:Just because Francesco didn't include an= y dances in his publications :DEL] [DEL: doesn't mean he never played them. :DEL] Of course not. They had to play much dance music. And beside so= los much ensemblemusic, too.

Re: Names of composers (Was: Vihuela)

2003-12-15 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear friends, I am not convinced at all, whether one has to label Valen= cian or even Spanish the system used by Milan. Besides the tablature of Melchiore de Barberiis = from Padova, mention by Stewart, there are some other examples, although even m= uch later ones,

Re: (serious/popular)

2003-12-13 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Jurek (Jerzy), you are absolutely right saying 'there were always some kind of= distinctions in style and organisation There were real stars among both groups, whose names became known to the history, and thousands of others forgotten.' If I my memory does not

Re: Historical cost of lutes.

2003-11-14 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Friends, [DEL:How much did a lute cost 1500-1650, in t= erms of months of salary? :DEL] The Polish royal court paid Bakfark August 1551 12 Polish= florins for a lute, which he bought in Cracow. At that time Bakfark earned yearly about 9= 2 Polish Florins.

Sloane 1021

2003-11-04 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Arthur, it is nice of you, that you mentioned my opinion, that the lute tablature in British Library, Ms Sloane 1021, has been incorrectly attributed to Johannes Stobaeus. To be frank I would like to state, that I am not the only person, and definitely not the first one, who realised that

Re: Latin translation

2003-11-04 Thread P-Kiraly
Dear Paolo, [DEL:I would like to suggest that the correct= family name of the cardinal :DEL] [DEL:is not Madruzzi or Madruzzo, but Madruzz= a (I have personal :DEL] [DEL: aquaintenace with the family) :DEL] You might be right, but as far I recollect in