[LUTE] Re: Italian Theorbo: 6/8, 7/8, 8/8....

2014-08-14 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:00:24 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote Of course! I meant courses, not strings. Single stringing is mainly a modern phenomenon... Where did you get this idea from? Is this statement based on _historic_ evidence or on surviving instruments? Cheers, Ralf Mattes To get on

[LUTE] Re: Italian Theorbo: 6/8, 7/8, 8/8....

2014-08-14 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:39:55 +0200, BENJAMIN NARVEY wrote Dear Luters, I notice that almost everyone keeps the seventh course of their Italian theorboes as a stopped string on the first pegbox, mind all the sources I know point to having only 6 on the stopped strings, and 8

[LUTE] Re: Italian Theorbo: 6/8, 7/8, 8/8....

2014-08-14 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:26:19 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be single strung, This sounds as if we can make sound statements about the the types of instruments used in France. How large is our sample compared to the population? (Read: how many surviving

[LUTE] Re: The Trujillo vihuelas

2014-04-26 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:20:33 +0200, David Morales wrote You can translate the full site to your prefered language by using the flags located in the top-left corner, maybe that could help. This unfortunately doesn't work in my browser here, even if I allow scripts from cuerdaspulsadas.es

[LUTE] Re: The Trujillo vihuelas

2014-04-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:31:33 +0200, David Morales wrote A few months ago, John Griffiths shared with us a project that was brewing in Trujillo (Caceres, Spain) ... The idea was so simple that it seems crazy to us: students technology institute Francisco Orellana were engaged in the

[LUTE] Re: Lute sonatas of Antonino Reggio

2014-04-13 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:16:16 +0200, Stephan Olbertz wrote Dear Christopher, I was a bit hasty, I'm afraid, and didn't look closely enough to Anthony's sample, assuming it was all simple octaving basses. I purchased a pdf and found several instances where indeed the lute bass has a different,

[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2014-03-02 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:06:29 +0100, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote Maybe Visée first met Louis XIV who stayed in Vizé for a couple of days in the then famous Maison Houbart in 1672 and 1675, during the Franco-Dutch War... He was with the musketeer d'Artagnan who got killed in 1673 during the siege of

[LUTE] Re: tiorbino

2014-02-26 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:14:47 -0500, Bruno Fournier wrote dear collective wisdom, I am thinking of stringing my Colin Everette small archlute as a tiorbino. As some of you might know, Colin built many renaissance lutes on the tiorbino model, with 13 or 14 courses but was stringing it as

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-26 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:10:03 -, Monica Hall wrote Monica - are you still reading up? It's really hard to answer without knowing which of my posts you have read so far. First, as I've said before: a guitar accompaniment is not a vaild source for continuo realizations! Guitar players where

[LUTE] Re: Notational query in NB Wien MS 17.706

2014-02-26 Thread R. Mattes
Czesc Grzegorzu, dziekujemy za odpowiedz! If you could send me the instruction pages (I have the Tree edition, without the added directions, I think) I would translate them to English and post them here. Dobranoc Bernd Am 26.02.2014 21:03, schrieb Grzegorz Joachimiak:

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:52:18 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote Thank's for this. I can't actually see that inverted  7 6 sequences dictate a non re-entrant tuning - the low tessitura one sometimes has is just part and parcel of the instrument. And I agree with the anonymous author of the

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:28:26 -0800 (PST), Christopher Wilke wrote I agree that seicento pluckers often played harmony below the bass. How would you know. This is another way of saying that they recognized and used chord inversion Now what? This definition is _disagrees_ with the example

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:41:43 -0800 (PST), Christopher Wilke wrote Ralf, On Tue, 2/25/14, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote: There is no such thing as harmony below bass. Please, get all out of your Berkeley Jazz shoes, now. No, everyone keep your shoes on, please! In fact, 17th century

[LUTE] Re: making sure your message looks as you intended it -

2014-02-25 Thread R. Mattes
mail). Please, no HTML. Cheers, RalfD Wayne To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-24 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:29:00 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote I don't have this work either - I think... @Monica: are you by any chance refering to https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441553512620558.1073741827.253474818095096type=1 (Bartolotti continuo and solo similarities - from

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-24 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:23:03 +0100, R. Mattes wrote I hate to follow up my own posts. (f bflat) [1]. To be followed by a chain of 2nd chords ... Yes, we all know that a 7-6 chain can be inverted (double counterpoint) into a 2-3 chain but we also know this doesn't work with a third voice

[LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise

2014-02-23 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:00:22 -, Monica Hall wrote Does anyone have a copy of Bartolotti's continuo treatise - Table pour apprendre a toucher le theorbe sur la basse continuo (1669). I haven't been able to trace one online. I don't think that treaties is online - not everything is ;-) But

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo set up

2014-02-21 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:43:23 +0800, Shaun Ng wrote I use 6+8. To me it makes more sense to have F and G as diapasons because they are used more often. Sorry, but I don't get this. What has the statistical distribution of F (vs. F#) and G (vs. G#) to do with the question of whether F (and maybe

[LUTE] Re: Baroque Lute Fingering (Vallet)

2014-02-16 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:15:23 +0100, adS wrote Dear lute-netters, has anybody out there read this article? Only after you posted this link - thanks for doing so. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1112context=ppr I wonder what others think about it. Hmm - in what

[LUTE] Re: archlute/theorbo in Corelli's Op. 1

2014-02-03 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:42:16 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote No one knows. The only thing known is that the combination of consonants TRB is absent in all European languages, except for the Slavic ones. Where did you get this from? Just because I was drinking one while your mail came in: Teber

[LUTE] Re: archlute/theorbo in Corelli's Op. 1

2014-01-28 Thread R. Mattes
...@yahoo.com; Martyn Hodgson [3][8]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk; R. Mattes [4][9]r...@mh-freiburg.de; Ed Durbrow [5][10]edurb...@gmail.com; LuteNet list [6][11]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 6:19 AM Subject: [LUTE] archlute/theorbo

[LUTE] Re: archlute/theorbo in Corelli's Op. 1

2014-01-28 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:56:46 +0100, Markus Lutz wrote This quote is part of a letter, and I think most letters show a very personal point of view. Yes, this is important to point out. Also Weiss clearly states that he gives his opinion. He doesn't want to be descriptive or prescriptive at

[LUTE] Re: archlute/theorbo in Corelli's Op. 1

2014-01-28 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:35:20 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote Have a look at: This is either a non-answer (how utterly Zen) or pretty close to an (ad hominem) insult. a) the early sources (Bob Spencer's famous paper still represents a good summary

[LUTE] Re: archlute/theorbo in Corelli's Op. 1

2014-01-28 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:10:18 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote I'm sorry you find Bob Spencer's paper so very poor. No need to be sorry, esp. since I don't find Spencer's paper very poor (where did I write that?). I only tied to say that it a) shows it's age b) seems to be an overview-type of

[LUTE] Re: Was archlute/theorbo- Historic vs. Modern gut?

2014-01-28 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:36:47 -0800, Dan Winheld wrote Chris- Modern gut,since its characteristics are quiet different from historical gut, does not provide an empirically reliable metric to determine pitch or tuning based upon string length. This bit I find very interesting. Except for the

[LUTE] Re: Manuscript ID confusion

2014-01-27 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:42:57 -0500 (EST), theoj89294 wrote I am not a musicologist, so please forgive my ignorance. Don't worry! But I am confused, sometimes manuscripts are identified by notations such as, e.g. RM 4137 olim Mf 2004 and sometimes as, e.g. A-Wn MusHS 17706 - which makes a

[LUTE] Re: Corelli sonata for violin and lute

2014-01-23 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:30:45 -0500, Gary R. Boye wrote Dear Jean-Michel, According to the citations I have collected (http://applications.library.appstate.edu/music/lute/continuo.html), many of the Italian editions of Corelli's Op. 1 call for the tiorba: I think Jean-Michel was refering

[LUTE] Re: Say love and Queen Elizabeth

2014-01-23 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:30:16 -, Stewart McCoy wrote ... Catherine de' Medici was a Medici, so her son, the Duc d'Alencon, was the son of a Medici. Family lines run on the _male_ side. And people back then where way more picky about that ... ;-) [...] As with Now, oh now, it's not

[LUTE] Re: Corelli sonata for violin and lute

2014-01-22 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:56:16 -0500, Gary R. Boye wrote There are over 30 examples (with many reprints) where plucked strings are specifically mentioned as a possibility in Corelli's works . . . Hmm, that pretty much boils down to Op. 1 and Op. 3 ... doesn't it? And those are tro sonatas

[LUTE] Re: Question on String Tension

2013-12-18 Thread R. Mattes
(without breaking the string). Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Articles Needed

2013-11-26 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:29:41 -0500, Graham Freeman wrote All, There's no need for this silliness, and I have no idea why Sean seems to be turning this into a matter of ethics, despite not having read my message thoroughly. Well, I can't speak for Sean, but I myself also must have misread

[LUTE] Re: Scales for ear training.

2013-11-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:03:33 -0600 (CST), Herbert Ward wrote I contemplate writing an ear-training computer program. It would select random pitches from a scale and pair them with random note values to create a melody, which the trainee would listen to and try to reproduce (by voice or

[LUTE] Re: Zoom H1

2013-11-07 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments

2013-09-25 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments

2013-09-25 Thread R. Mattes
the pitch of the strings. Maybe someone more of an expert on Bermudo can elucidate. Monica To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments

2013-09-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:43:10 -0400, Geoff Gaherty wrote On 25/09/13 3:34 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: Polar opposite to Jazz electric guitarists, who seemed to me to avoid open strings as much as possible. The same is true of gamba players, who avoid open strings because of their different tone.

[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments

2013-09-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:50:01 +0200, David van Ooijen wrote On 25 September 2013 23:43, Geoff Gaherty [1]ge...@gaherty.ca wrote: On 25/09/13 3:34 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: Polar opposite to Jazz electric guitarists, who seemed to me to avoid open strings as much as possible.

[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments

2013-09-25 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:54:38 -0400, Geoff Gaherty wrote On 25/09/13 7:20 PM, R. Mattes wrote: Yes, I always try to avid open bass strings ... esp. on theorbo. Sorry, couldn't resist;-) That's the difference between a bowed string and a plucked string. Well, that was partly my question

[LUTE] Re: lute/guitar/other tablature editor

2013-08-31 Thread R. Mattes
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:01:23 -0500, Joshua E. Horn wrote Did not think of that, The extension is being changed to *.jtab, Which would collide with JTab (http://jtab.tardate.com/) ;-) Cheers, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-07 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 10:50:34 +0100 (BST), William Samson wrote I wonder how many early music 'acts' have an agent or a manager? Probably very few. For a percentage of income, these people can take a lot of the burden of marketing and negotiation from the shoulders of the musicians

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-07 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:23:07 +, Ron Andrico wrote Briefly, playing for free (or worse, paying to play) doesn't really do any lasting good. It only makes the potential audience think that your music should be free. We only play for free for children and for worthy causes aimed at

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-07 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:42:08 -0400, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote H. Does this mean that I made a strategic mistake 20 years ago by never charging a penny for my wares? Sorry, I don't understand your mail. What _are_ your wares? Are you saying that you make money with your wares now

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-06 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:56:49 -0700, Nancy Carlin wrote As some of you know I spent 35 years as an agent for musicians, between my 2 stints with the LSA - a lot of this time was working on building careers and salability for folk and Celtic musicians. I see a few things missing that other

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-06 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:22:47 -0700, Nancy Carlin wrote Actually it's a combination of things. Some of them are balancing so many balls in the air that they don't have time to step back and figure out a 3 year plan for their careers. It was pretty well known that there are no (few?) lute

[LUTE] Re: The golden rose

2013-06-23 Thread R. Mattes
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:17:31 +0200, Anthony Hind wrote I suppose, Leonard, if any effect, it would be more like loading, so possibly more damping than brightening. Although, it would probably be too thin to make an audible difference. Just my intuition. Regards Anthony While the mass of the

[LUTE] Aquila Nylgut Problems

2013-06-13 Thread R. Mattes
Mattes P.S.: off course this always happens the day before an important rehearsal ... -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Lute bass strings - was Re: Are Pistoys prone to rot according to Mace?

2012-11-30 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:24:39 +1100, Shaun Ng wrote Well, wouldn't this mean that every time we see a painting of an instrument with strings, we would have to consider one more stringing option, instead of just gut or wound? Yes, as long as we ignore all no-iconographic sources of

[LUTE] Re: Lute bass strings - was Re: Are Pistoys prone to rot according to Mace?

2012-11-29 Thread R. Mattes
century. In his article on the lute he mentions beside others Besard, Baron, Weiss etc. Yes, so utterly unuseable as a source for when things fist show up ;-) Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Long live the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

2012-11-19 Thread R. Mattes
-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00077414-1 16. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00072008-2 17. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00031267-3 18. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh

[LUTE] Re: Keyboard M-Key

2012-11-13 Thread R. Mattes
nor a syntesizer, the sounds a generated according to a mathematical model of the instrument. HTH Ralf Mattes Best regards, Wim Loos -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik

[LUTE] Re: Chitarrone

2012-10-17 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Anything lute related in Berlin?

2012-10-08 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Tuner

2012-09-03 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:22:11 -0400, William Brohinsky wrote I have one. I have had it for a few years. For piano tuning, it is not a choice. For just about everything else, it is wonderful. Please correct me if I'm wrong - but isn't this tuner out of stock since _years_? -- R. Mattes

[LUTE] Re: YouTube going too far?

2012-07-05 Thread R. Mattes
more than two years now it's perfectly legal (over here in ol' Germany at least) to make copies of the book (IANAL, only citing a publication by BitCom, a rather pro-copyright organisation). Cheers, RalfD -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Minkoff contact

2012-05-16 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: 4022, 40588

2012-04-05 Thread R. Mattes
for Lautentabulatur Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Castaldi puzzle

2012-02-22 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:52:26 +0100, R. Mattes wrote Donata's article I linked to does mention it (footnote 15. page 389/page 19 of the article) - Paris. Too bad, but kind of typical for their editorial process. And their repoduction technique (photocopy on steroids) often makes things

[LUTE] Re: Rubber mat

2012-02-22 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:53:01 -0500, Leah Baranov wrote Any 99cent store or hardware/kitchen place sells inexpensive rolls of rubberized shelf liners in a variety of colors including black. Leah I'd be rather cautious with those - someif not most of the soft and sticky plastic materials

[LUTE] Re: Castaldi puzzle

2012-02-21 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Castaldi puzzle

2012-02-20 Thread R. Mattes
. Cheers, RalfD -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Castaldi puzzle

2012-02-20 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:31:24 +0100, R. Mattes wrote On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:42:37 +0100, David van Ooijen wrote Does someone have the AR-edition at hand to check the preface to see what David Dolata has to say? It's in our library, but I might be too bussy to check this week. Ah

[LUTE] Re: Castaldi puzzle

2012-02-18 Thread R. Mattes
facsimile prints use different originals but I might be wrong here ...). Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: korg lca-120

2012-02-10 Thread R. Mattes
situation. Any thoughts? All best Jaroslaw To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r

[LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz?

2012-01-10 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:21:18 -0800 (PST), Christopher Wilke wrote Howard, --- On Tue, 1/10/12, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote:   Have you read Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration?  It comes from precisely this period.  (You can find English versions online)

[LUTE] Re: costello

2011-12-31 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: More...

2011-12-29 Thread R. Mattes
important promoters for early music (esp. medieval music) in Europe. And of course there's still the Documenta series of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with more than 70 productions. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: A=392

2011-12-01 Thread R. Mattes
moved to the third string. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Something old and something new - Conrad Paumann and Gilbert Isbin

2011-11-26 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Something old and something new - Conrad Paumann and Gilbert Isbin

2011-11-26 Thread R. Mattes
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:07:13 -, Stewart McCoy wrote Dear Stuart, I think Ich beger nit mer would be Ich begiere nicht mehr in modern German, meaning I long no more. Just for the records: there's no such word as begieren - modern german verb is begehren (#8599; mhd. 'gêren'). Cheers,

[LUTE] Re: Buzzing [was Gut strings]

2011-11-21 Thread R. Mattes
of parchment waggling like a tuning fork maybe? Again, that could be influenced by humidity. Then again there are the inlays To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings

2011-11-18 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Gut Strings

2011-11-16 Thread R. Mattes
when are gut strings made out of beef gut? I always assumed that Aquilla's gut strings are made from sheep gut. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute

[LUTE] Re: Besard duets once more

2011-08-17 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: Besard duets once more

2011-08-17 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:26:53 +, Ron Andrico wrote Hello Ralf: Besard's 1617 print is the result of engraving - the medium of wood or copper or whatever matters less than the distinction of typeset with moveable type versus engraved plates. No, sorry. Please let's be a little

[LUTE] Re: tablature software programs

2011-08-16 Thread R. Mattes
://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01tc/web/ Best wishes, Denys -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Alain Sent: 15 August 2011 19:00 To: R. Mattes Cc: Eugene Kurenko; David Smith; Monica Hall; SCOTT ZEIDEL; Lutelist Subject: [LUTE

[LUTE] Re: tablature software programs

2011-08-15 Thread R. Mattes
. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Lute Strings for theorbo

2011-08-12 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:41:04 +0200, Andreas Schlegel wrote Did De Visee write that part about the tenth fret? That would be strange since that would shurely be a 'd la sol' (note: no re here!). Otherwise high might refer to the guitar's lowest note, d (open forth course), but that

[LUTE] Re: Lute Strings for theorbo

2011-08-12 Thread R. Mattes
-50 years of your dating (and that of the earliest De Visee guitar publication). Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Lute Strings for theorbo

2011-08-11 Thread R. Mattes
www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Lute Strings for theorbo

2011-08-11 Thread R. Mattes
. Cheers, Ralf Mattes Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Lute Strings for theorbo

2011-08-11 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: tuners

2011-08-06 Thread R. Mattes
good job of discriminating. Yes, an awfully nice tuner - but unfortunately the ST-122 is Out of stock until further notice for at least a year now. Too bad. Cheers, RalfD ray To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R

[LUTE] Re: tuners

2011-08-05 Thread R. Mattes
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[LUTE] Re: tuner re's

2011-08-05 Thread R. Mattes
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[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Continuo duets for two continuo instruments?

2011-06-19 Thread R. Mattes
enjoyable! And I've done these two in a course in Bremen in the beginning on 90's... I'll use the Pasquini ones in a course next weekend :-) HTH RalfD -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http

[LUTE] Re: German tablature

2011-03-09 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:06:09 +0100, Mathias Roesel wrote *waves hand* *waves hands too* Actually, once used to it it's a pretty neat shorthand notation. I sometimes use it it sketch fingerings/chord shapes for continuo playing ... Cheers, Ralf Mattes Mat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

[LUTE] Re: 7-course lute by Martin Haycock for sale

2011-03-09 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:10:11 +0100, Alfonso Marin wrote Selling price: [WINDOWS-1252?]€4400 Here you can watch some pictures: http://www.lutevoice.com/Haycock/ And you may wonder why you can't see any pictures on this web page ... Yet another page that needs activated Java Script to

[LUTE] Re: Holbein painting - bray harp

2011-02-10 Thread R. Mattes
to experiment such a set-up, to see what happens. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: BAROQUE LUTE FOR SALE

2010-12-21 Thread R. Mattes
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:19:23 -0800 (PST), Anton Birula wrote --- On Mon, 12/20/10, Anton Birula image...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Anton Birula image...@yahoo.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: BAROQUE LUTE FOR SALE To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, December 20, 2010, 1:37 PM Baroque lute

[LUTE] Re: Resources

2010-10-22 Thread R. Mattes
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:30:18 +0100, Peter Martin wrote Thanks for this lead! I've just downloaded Laute und Lautenmusik. on page 17, taking an example from Neusidler, he suggests that an quarter note C followed by eighth notes C and D should be interpreted as a dotted quarter

[LUTE] Re: In My Life Copyright Issue What is Copyright Infringement?

2010-10-21 Thread R. Mattes
owner. See it yourself, http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html Allan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer

[LUTE] Re: In My Life Copyright Issue What is Copyright Infringement?

2010-10-21 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:22:17 -0400, Mayes, Joseph wrote What occurs to me in all of this is just how far from the spirit of the law, the letter of the law has gone. Yes, but unfortunately we have to live with that. The Humble rockers who wrote the beautiful song are way out of it - We're

[LUTE] Re: In My Life Copyright Issue What is Copyright Infringement?

2010-10-21 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:31:17 +0200, Thomas Schall wrote I guess this would count as performance and clearly is an infringement of copyright law. IMHO copyright (in the US) has very good intensions but it's a law that is hard to follow and is contradictional to common sense and habits. I'm

[LUTE] Re: Interesting Story about Copyright

2010-10-21 Thread R. Mattes
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:22:46 -0700 (PDT), mc41mc wrote I refused to read this, as there were .gif images on the page. As I'm sure you are aware, the .gif format is proprietary, and I see no evidence that the proper licencing fees have been paid to Unisys. Nonsense! The GIF format is

[LUTE] Re: Toccata

2010-10-20 Thread R. Mattes
) afterwards. I take this as a rather strong evidence for using only p,i and m on the chitarrone. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute

[LUTE] Re: Munich 1522

2010-10-20 Thread R. Mattes
...@gmail.com 7. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 8. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

[LUTE] Re: Munich 1522

2010-10-20 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:14:46 +0100, Peter Martin wrote Interesting. But I wonder whether this, and the transcription into staff notation of chords A and B on the Accordatura page, are a later pencilled addition by someone (probably a non-guitarist) trying to interpret the tablature?

[LUTE] Re: Toccata

2010-10-20 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:02:17 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Wilke wrote The confusion arises from the fact that HK is always using the same examples in his prefaces. The 4-note arp. is always demonstrated p- i-m-i, but illustrated on strings that result in low to high. So, what if the arp. needs

[LUTE] Re: Toccata

2010-10-20 Thread R. Mattes
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:28:20 -0500, Mjos Larson wrote I think Valdambrini's 1646 and 1647 guitar books might also add to this topic. He gives performance information in his introduction and uses signs that Kapsberger previously used. Valdambrini's two arpeggio examples suggest to me

[LUTE] Re: Dalza question.

2010-03-04 Thread R. Mattes
://www.amadeusmusic.ch/index.php To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de

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